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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!tfs.com!usenet From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: secdist installation Message-ID: <Czy8vw.KL2@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems References: <adammCzuJAB.F6q@netcom.com> <Czuo2F.Lyu@tfs.com> <3b8qvv$5pi@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 23:21:32 GMT Lines: 25 tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer) wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@tfs.com) wrote: > : adamm@netcom.com (Adam Mitchell) wrote: > : > > : > i'm going to install freebsd 2.0 tonight and want to > : > know the PROPER way to install the "secdist" des security > : > package (i.e., how do i keep my password files from becoming > : > interpreted incorrectly and locking me out?). i screwed up > : > my 1.1.5 installation beyond repair (by myself, anyway) by > : > trying to install secdist. > > : Just use the all singing and dancing install, and you will be home > : safe. > > For FreeBSD-2.0R, how should the non-US secrdist be installed, If the > package on Geoff Rhemet's site is still compatible. I don't belive there is a non-us secrdist yet. You only need it if you need to be compatible with other systems, ie rcp /etc/passwd kind of things. The basic password security of FreeBSD-2.0 is way >better< than the default DES based crap. Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD core team