Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:42:29 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Willie Bollinger <willie@abs.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encryption Message-ID: <3B169EA5.30205@quack.kfu.com> References: <20010531085921.A35603@account.abs.net> <20010531140724.A52119@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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David Malone wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:59:21AM -0400, Willie Bollinger wrote: > >> I recently installed 4.3 on a new box but it now seems that it is using >> md5 encryption instead of des, Is there an easy way to change this so when >> I move the password file off of the old machine that it will recognize the >> des passwords? > > > It should just work - it can tell from the format of the password > entry what type of password to use. I think he means for new accounts. I believe this is now in login.conf as the "passwd_format" item. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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