From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 14 21: 5:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6C237B404 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (adsl-67-37-226-66.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [67.37.226.66]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g3F45pvC021840; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:05:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200204150405.g3F45pvC021840@midway.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: charon@seektruth.org To: "Paul Starman" Subject: Re: Password Modification Problem Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:05:54 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200204150313.g3F3DRT51081@omega.surenet.net> In-Reply-To: <200204150313.g3F3DRT51081@omega.surenet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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