More on fP 6.0 features

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Oct 28 13:06 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
Fairlight sent this to stdout: 

> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Vermillion done said:
> > 
> > AFIK only DES, MD5 and Blowfish are in the password files
> > in BSD.   A definition of Extended DES fails to come to mind
> > at the moment.

> On a FBSD 4.7 system on which I read the docs, man passwd
> documented Extended DES, which uses _ as the leading character
> before the salt.

Hm. It's not in the current 4.10 doc under either man 1 passwd
or man 5 passwd.

Double hm.

The login.conf file shows that only three types of password
formats are used there.  The keywords being 'des' 'md5' or 'blf'.


Bill
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