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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US?? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:49:24 GMT Message-ID: <CC40yC.JGq@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <LMJM.93Aug19143408@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de> Lines: 17 In article <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > Since FreeBSD claims to tolerate GNU code, the moment should have been come to > throw out that stupid "restricted" BNR/2 crypt and place the GNU-crypt > lookalike in, otherwise we are going to have US and "rest-of-the-world" > releases forever. It uses a non-DES algorithm? Hmmm. Got mixed feelings about that. I like being able to use the same password files on my Xenix boxes, System V boxes, and so on. Changing crypt would break that even with munging... and going to YP isn't an option (Xenix don't play that). -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."