[vox] When did Linux start using MD5?

[Mark K. Kim]

I think Mandrake had MD5 available as an option when I started using it in
2000.  Because MD5 is not compatible with NIS, both crypt-style and
MD5-style passwords were available as options at least until I switched
over to Debian, which I think was about a year ago.

-Mark


On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Nicole TWN wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Anyone know, offhand, when any major Linux distro started supporting
> MD5-hashed passwords?  (I'm commenting on a memo that claims RH 7.3 uses
> a non-MD5 hash; my contention is that MD5 was available, at least as an
> option, for years and years.)
>
> Thanks bunches
>
> --nicole twn
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