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Re: PATCH: Update FAQ re. plaintext passwords

From: Greg Thomas <greg.d.thomas_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-03-05 13:23:58 CET

On 3/1/06, Max Bowsher <maxb1@ukf.net> wrote:
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> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > "Greg Thomas" <Greg@TheThomasHome.co.uk> writes:
> >> On 27 Feb 2006 13:44:55 -0600, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:
> >>> "Greg Thomas" <greg.d.thomas@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>> [[[
> >>>> * www/faq.html (plaintext-passwords): Highlight that Win2K+ passwords
> >>>> are encrypted.
> >>>> ]]]
> >>> The nightly builds of the book explicitly ask not to be linked to; do
> >>> you think you could redo this patch to point to the right section in a
> >>> stable version of the book?
> >> I'd be happy to; but AFAICT the stable version of the book doesn't
> >> mention the on-disk Win32 encryption at all; that's why the link was
> >> to the nightly build. I did however link to the index -
> >> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/index.html
...
> >
> > Can you copy the relevant stuff from the nightly build,
...
> I've proposed to axe the request-not-to-link from the book website, and
> initial reactions to the proposal are favourable.
>
> So, hold off doing this for now, and we may be able to commit your
> original patch shortly.

If deep links are to be allowed, you may want to link to
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.netmodel.html#svn.serverconfig.netmodel.credcache
rather than just the index, though.

Greg

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