Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:50:12 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" <ccrider@whiterose.net> To: "'Paul MacKenzie'" <pc.mackenzie@utoronto.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Switch from MD5 to DES on 4.2 FreeBSD: cannot set password cipher Message-ID: <000101c07ce2$bac3a150$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010111101725.034f46c8@mail.elehost.com>
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> I have been working to allow some old user accounts to work > with their DES > passwords on a new FreeBSD 4.2 machine. > I have the same situation here, I am running Linux with DES, and when BSD installed it was using MD5. What I did was just go into /stand/sysinstall and install the DES stuff. When I manually add the password to the passwd file, it will read it fine, when I change the password, it is then MD5. I didn't have to symlink any of the libs. Maybe I did it wrong ;) But it works. Robert Myers Systems Administrator http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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