Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:38:22 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password Message-ID: <19991005223822.F24928@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910051126420.82242-100000@hub.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910051343340.3144-100000@sentry.granch.ru> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910051126420.82242-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 02:15:25PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Rashid N. Achilov wrote: > > As DES pointed out (we really need a committer with initials MD5 just for > symmetry :-) once you have an MD5 password for your account it will remain > MD5 when you next change it. The easiest way to do this is to go to a > machine which has MD5 passwords, generate any password, and then > cut-n-paste it from /etc/master.passwd into your /etc/master.passwd. Then > you can change your password again and it will stay MD5. The method that I use is to use 'vipw' to edit the master password file, and manually change the password for the user to '$1$'. Then get them to type in their password on the root console using 'passwd username' (under your supervision of course ;) This generates a new MD5 password. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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