Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:55:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: vince@venus.GAIANET.NET (Vincent Poy) Cc: cjclark@home.com, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE passwd issue Message-ID: <199910230455.AAA34689@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910222113070.5072-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> from Vincent Poy at "Oct 22, 1999 09:15:02 pm"
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Vincent Poy wrote, [snip] > > Seems for some reason, unless I go into vipw and delete the entire > password, the passwd program will just write MD5 instead of DES since it > had the $ before it. Oh, yeah. That's a know "gotcha." Once you set the password to one format, the only way to change it is to go in manually with vipw. But to the original problem, those 13 character passwords you said you originally had, the DES ones, should work fine. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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