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Message-ID: <20110714153118.GA30247@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:31:18 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@...e.de>, Andreas Jaeger <aj@...e.de>,
	Zefram <zefram@...h.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: crypt_blowfish 8-bit character mishandling

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:37:36PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Well, you need to modify that in %post to automatically get 2y for
> new passwords then.

Not in %post - we'll just provide the new file, which is marked
%config(noreplace).  Yes, it does mean that if there were any local
changes, the admin will need to merge the changes and/or rename the file
from *.rpmnew manually.

> Which is kind of ugly as that's a file the admin may have modified.

You're right.  In a sense, having the change in code only would have
been better.

Alexander

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