On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:42:46 -0500 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Cantrell (dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > 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. > > No, I'm saying if it was actually a good idea to expose it in the UI, we > would already have done it. It's exposing a choice that for 99.99% of users > is irrelevant. Until recently we had no choices but DES or MD5. People ask for this stuff, I work on it, and then it's shot down by someone. I'll remove the UI components. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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