> Today Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> > You had to install DES and _then_ add the +:::::::: line. Now there's one
> > more step.
>
> Exactly. Since at least 2.0.5 those needing DES passwords
> installed DES, and later CRYPTO, and we had them. As you said,
> `Now there's one more step.' The problem is that nobody bothered
> to tell us ahead of time about the additional step.
>
> I still maintain that this is a change in default system behavior
> and therefore there should have been a HEADS UP, and it should
> have been mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT and UPDATING.
Sorry. There wasn't anyone who both either remembered to and updated
RELNOTES.TXT. It's now going to be in the errata as a documentation of the
oversight -- which isn't really too bad, since everyone's supposed to read
the relnotes and the latest errata, too :)
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Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! /
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