Proposed OMC vote: drop -crypt option from passwd app

Dr Paul Dale paul.dale at oracle.com
Wed Nov 4 03:52:29 UTC 2020


Proposed vote text:

Remove the -crypt option from the passwd app.

The rationale behind this is that this is a very old, long broken algorithm and that supporting it is difficult using non-deprecated calls.  This is a breaking change and requires OMC approval.


Pauli
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