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Date:      Tue, 05 Oct 1999 16:50:43 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        "Cameron, Frank" <cameron@ctc.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Long username/password
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19991005165043.014cfac0@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <604CC98C4E6BD311AEF900A0C9EA54E1878ACD@ctcjst-mail1.ctc.co m>

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At 10:00 AM 10/5/99 -0400, Cameron, Frank wrote:
>Is it possible to change a user from DES to MD5 and/or make MD5 the default?

This has been discussed in the past many times.  Check the archives.  Hint:
 check out /usr/lib and the *crypt* links.

Note that changing the above is an all-or-nothing if you want MD5 for new
accounts.  Doing so means you can't use DES, period.

Hack the code (or do custom code) to call libscrypt rather than libdescypt
when hashing.

Having a knob in login.conf (or somewhere) to choose DES or MD5 (or others)
was being worked on, but no idea how far along this is.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve
'86 Yamaha MaxiumX (not FBSD powered)



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