From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 5 14:39:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA5215666; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA68341; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:38:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:38:22 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Rashid N. Achilov" , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password Message-ID: <19991005223822.F24928@florence.pavilion.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 02:15:25PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Rashid N. Achilov wrote: > > As DES pointed out (we really need a committer with initials MD5 just for > symmetry :-) once you have an MD5 password for your account it will remain > MD5 when you next change it. The easiest way to do this is to go to a > machine which has MD5 passwords, generate any password, and then > cut-n-paste it from /etc/master.passwd into your /etc/master.passwd. Then > you can change your password again and it will stay MD5. The method that I use is to use 'vipw' to edit the master password file, and manually change the password for the user to '$1$'. Then get them to type in their password on the root console using 'passwd username' (under your supervision of course ;) This generates a new MD5 password. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message