On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:38:49 -0500 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Cantrell (dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > Why not default to whichever is deemed 'most secure', and have it only > > > frobbable via kickstart for paranoid^Wpower users? > > > > I thought about that, but it seems like a reasonable setting to have in the UI. > > There may be instances where a Fedora users wants to stick with an algorithm > > other than our default for one reason or another (I have no idea, but there's > > got to be a reason...copying shadow files among distributions maybe or among > > different operating systems, using some service that can't--for whatever > > reason--deal with anything but, say, SHA-256). > > Then why isn't there an option for crypt() style passwords in the UI? Because there wasn't one before and I was only adding SHA-256 and SHA-512. But I can add DES. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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