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$NetBSD: patch-ag,v 1.1 2003/03/01 05:22:24 grant Exp $
--- tools/README.orig Sat Apr 8 00:53:35 2000
+++ tools/README
@@ -35,17 +35,14 @@ security holes, namely server-server pas
obvious problem.
So how do you generate these icky looking strings for passwords?
-There's a simple program called mkpasswd to do that for you. Just run
-mkpasswd, and at the prompt type in your plaintext password. It will
-spit out the encrypted password, which you should then just copy into
-the irc.conf file. This should be done only when adding new passwords
-to your irc.conf file. To change over your irc.conf file to use
-encrypted passwords, define CRYPT_OPER_PASSWORD in config.h. You will
-need to recompile your server if you already compiled it with this
-feature disabled. Once compiled, edit the Makefile in this directory
-and chang "IRCDCONF" to your irc.conf file. Then "make install" in this
-directory to replace all the operator passwords in your irc.conf file
-with the encrypted format.
+There's a simple program called ircd-mkpasswd to do that for you.
+Just run ircd-mkpasswd, and at the prompt type in your plaintext
+password. It will spit out the encrypted password, which you should
+then just copy into the ircd.conf file. This should be done only when
+adding new passwords to your ircd.conf file.
+
+To change over your ircd.conf file to use encrypted passwords, define
+F:CRYPT_OPER_PASSWORD:TRUE in ircd.conf.
Choose your passwords carefully. Do not choose something in a
dictionary, make sure its at least 5 characters. Anything past 8
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