Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:05:54 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: "Paul Starman" <blinko@surenet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Modification Problem Message-ID: <200204150405.g3F45pvC021840@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <200204150313.g3F3DRT51081@omega.surenet.net> References: <200204150313.g3F3DRT51081@omega.surenet.net>
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On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:13 pm, Paul Starman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a bit of a problem. I'm running a FreeBSD 4-STABLE server, > and am trying to change a password using a password file that I use > with a 3-STABLE server. I can change passwords and make other > modifications on the 3-STABLE system no problem, but when I try to > change a password (among other things) on the 4-STABLE system I get > this: > > mail# passwd admin > Changing local password for admin. > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: 1184 > max uid value (4294967295) > pwd_mkdb: at line #79 > pwd_mkdb: /etc/pw.bxJ2ty: Inappropriate file type or format > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged This might be a problem with the 3.x machine using DES and the 4.x machine using MD5 for password encryption. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/crypt.html to figure out if this is the case. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Center for Cosmological Physics The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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