From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 16:52:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11383 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:52:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (nyc-ny67-39.ix.netcom.com [209.109.225.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11376 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00407; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:50:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: PigStuy.dyn.ml.org: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav cc: Imran Aslam , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: DES to MD5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Dec 1998, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > 2) FreeBSD supports DES passwords just fine, if you install the DES > libraries (the installation utility will ask you whether or not you > want to install them), but FreeBSD password files have a few more > fields than Linux password files. See the passwd(5) man page. How do I tell if my system is using DES or MD5? Is there a way to switch types of encryption once the system is installed? (I know I would have to re-enter my passwords in order to do this) > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message