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Re: Suggestion for setup


On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:52:20AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>It's not harmless.  mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on
>>stand alone systems.
>
>Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if
>an error is returned issue a warning that it's switching to -l mode.

This would result in some people experiencing the twenty to thirty
minute delays that were previously mentioned.

cgf

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