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| author | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-07-22 22:19:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-07-22 22:19:41 +0000 |
| commit | df7ba75f83bc991da50cd8779e4373b25cf24f94 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b1e52f43e32e058d1c24fabdf88c504459b5a72 | |
| parent | e5b8ed11599eb8867012601b20497def301b54f6 (diff) | |
| download | doc-df7ba75f83bc991da50cd8779e4373b25cf24f94.tar.gz doc-df7ba75f83bc991da50cd8779e4373b25cf24f94.zip | |
We now use blf by default instead of md5
Approved by: wblock
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=39250
| -rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 5f7a83846b..a5f80ce19f 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -1849,8 +1849,10 @@ </question> <answer> - <para>The default password format on &os; is to use - <emphasis>MD5</emphasis>-based passwords. These are + <para>&os; 7 and 8 use MD5 password hashing by + default. Recent versions + of &os; use <emphasis>blf</emphasis> by default. + These are believed to be more secure than the traditional &unix; password format, which used a scheme based on the <emphasis>DES</emphasis> algorithm. DES passwords are still |