Re: crypt passwd length problems in 7.1 -> 7.2 upgrade

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:57:07PM -0600, Frank Winans <fwinans airmail net> wrote:
| I'm guessing you don't use MD5 password encoding...
| That would match one of the listed errata for Redhat -- there's a patch for that.
| I'd prefer reinstalling with MD5 over applying the patch...

Apply the patch anyway. It won't hurt.
We certainly needed it here (NIS user db using crypt because only Linux
does the MD5 thing).
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs zip com au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

In article 1t8n9hINNq9j dns1 NMSU Edu, mcrider acca nmsu edu (Mcrider) writes:
>Could one of you physicist-type cyber-riders give a lucid description/
>explanation of what some folks loosely refer to as a 'tank-slapper'?

An undamped oscillation of camber thrust, with positive feedback,
applied to the front contact patch?  :^)
	- Ed Green, Ed Green East Sun COM, DoD#0111