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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:58:08 +0200 (EET)
From:      Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@lmf.ericsson.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   passwd and libcrypt: got MD5 instead of DES
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011031452550.701-100000@ws125.nomadiclab.com>

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Hi!

I changed my password on our NIS server (FreeBSD 4.2-BETA) and
now my password is MD5 instead of DES. This is not good as we
have hosts in our network which don't speak MD5.

Here are the libcrypt links:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       13 Nov  2 14:06 libcrypt.a -> libdescrypt.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       14 Nov  2 14:06 libcrypt.so -> libdescrypt.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Nov  2 14:06 libcrypt.so.2 -> libdescrypt.so.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       15 Nov  2 14:06 libcrypt_p.a -> libdescrypt_p.a

So libcrypt.* are symlinks to the DES variants. This is the output
from "ktrace passwd user":

    12356 passwd   NAMI  "/usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2"
    ...

Once again, the passwd command should be using the DES variant of the
crypt libraries as expected.

No matter what I do, I get this:

# passwd user
Changing NIS password for user on localhost in domain xxxxx.
New password:
Retype new password:

NIS password has been changed on localhost.
# grep ^user /var/yp/master.passwd
user:$1$v.Pe7YE9$IQ2fKW5/iYAF8K44FJTmF/:1000:1000::0:0:User Name:/home/user:/bin/bash

So the password is MD5 instead of DES! What am I doing wrong?

Please CC: me with the answer as I'm not on this list.

Thanks in advance,

Martti Kuparinen



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