From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 20 01:13:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01876 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01870 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:13:07 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10444; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:12:57 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09640; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:12:49 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199804200812.KAA09640@greenpeace.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:12:49 +0200 From: Mark Murray 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 :-). Yonks ago, you made Brandon Gillespie into a committer. He was working on extending crypt to do all sorts of cute things (Thus absolving me of that responsibility). What happened to him? I may be wrong, but I have yet to see a single commit from him. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message