From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 5 14:59:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7AD152AB for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA24173; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:55:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-56.tnt1.rac.cyberlynk.net(209.224.182.56) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma024171; Tue Oct 5 16:55:31 1999 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991005165043.014cfac0@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 16:50:43 -0500 To: "Cameron, Frank" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: RE: Long username/password In-Reply-To: <604CC98C4E6BD311AEF900A0C9EA54E1878ACD@ctcjst-mail1.ctc.co m> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message