From owner-freebsd-security Sun Apr 19 17:35:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23165 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 17:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23145 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:35:14 GMT (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12955; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:34:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:34:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Penisoara Adrian , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption In-Reply-To: <29805.893026136@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > How can one control which kind of encryption is to be used by the > > system for password encryption ? For example I want to use only MD5 > > I've often wondered that myself and I'll be interested to hear the > answer. :) I suspect the answer is, however, "you can't do that" > and that we need some sort of /etc/passwd.conf (ducks :-). Good idea. Where's the diffs? *innocent* > Jordan *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message