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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:12:05 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Manas Bhatt <bhatt_manas@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: passwd_format missing
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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:33:24PM -0700, Manas Bhatt wrote:
> while going through the freebsd handbook, i found that
> one can set which type of encryption to use for new
> passwords by editing passwd_format variable in
> /etc/login.conf file.
> My question there is no passwd_format variable in my
> machine but it uses md5 to encrypt the new passwords
> (saw $ in the master.passwd file) but the libraries
> used are des. So without passwd_format variable, how
> is this happening?? Am i missing something which i
> should have known before asking this question
> thanks
> manas

Upgrade to 4.2 or later.

Kris

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