From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 5 14:27:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 0BDA7151E6; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DBB1CD423; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:27:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Jon Parise Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password In-Reply-To: <19991005103919.A17991@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jon Parise wrote: > > DES *is* the default if the DES libraries are installed, unless the > > user in question already has an MD5 password (in which case the system > > will keep using MD5 every time he/she changes his/her password) > > If the DES libraries are already installed on a system, is there a > way to still use MD5 passwords by default? No. Unless you make a trivial change to passwd(1). Adding a command-line switch to do this would probably be a welcome feature. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message