On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:26:43AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> does this mean that the 2.5.1 default authentication is different
> than in the 2.4 releases and thus breaks backward compatibility
> without some config changes?

No worries -- no such change has taken place. See common-src/conffile.c:
  1299     conf_init_string(&conf_data[CNF_AUTH], "bsd");

Dustin

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