On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 02:11:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:11:40PM -0500, nick black wrote: > > it's 2023 and imho time to stop supporting unshadowed passwords > > from the installer. > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/-/merge_requests/5 > > > > 1) nis (and possibly conserver?) seem the primary drivers of an > > unshadowed passwd.=20 > > > > let me freely admit that, despite the advanced age of forty-two > > (seventy-eight in UNIX years), that i know nothing about nis/yp > > except that there was a big o'reilly book about it back when one > > read the security book with the big safe on the front and the > > scripting book with the big drill. i suspect it's basically a > > halfway point between syncing /etc/passwd and /etc/hosts with > > cron+rsh, and hiring someone on whom you can inflict ldap? so > > please correct me wherever i'm woefully ignorant. > > > > ...but it appears that NIS can be made to work with shadowed > > passwords (though without their benefits). this is from a > > cursory reading of a FAQ last updated in 2003, so take it with a > > grain of salt. the "linux network administrators [sic] guide" > > seems to confirm this, and can also help you set up IPX or UUCP. > [snip] > > i'm absolutely not suggesting we stop supporting NIS or other > > programs which rely on unshadowed passwords. it's a big ol' > > tent, and we have more than enough room for you to carry forth > > the torch of Solaris 2. i just don't think this belongs in the > > installer anymore. > > I know what NIS/YP is, I know of a couple of places where it is > still in use, and, as Mark Haber said, the people running those
Um. Many apologies. Of course it's Marc. > places know how to find and flip a switch. -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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