From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 20 01:23:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04198 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04139 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:23:20 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16152; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Mark Murray cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:12:49 +0200." <199804200812.KAA09640@greenpeace.grondar.za> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:23:08 -0700 Message-ID: <16149.893060588@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Good question - I have no idea. :-( > 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