Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:18:31 +0300 (EDT) From: "Valentin Nechayev" <nfb@nn.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, kris@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long username/password Message-ID: <ABNNm-tS1U@nn.kiev.ua> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910051426130.82242-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> wrote:
> > If the DES libraries are already installed on a system, is there a
> > way to still use MD5 passwords by default?
>
> No. Unless you make a trivial change to passwd(1). Adding a command-line
> switch to do this would probably be a welcome feature.
Possibly, not command-line switch - this should be host policy.
I'd prefer something similar to /etc/malloc_options.
It is quite easy to read link.
This link must be used at least by pw(1) and passwd(1). Possible
definitions:
'M' - always create new crypts as MD5
'5' - create crypts for new accounts, or cases of empty password or '*'
in pw_passwd field (in code - all cases of first two characters of
crypt not in [A-Za-z0-9./] )
Is it acceptable?
P.S. There were some rumours about totally new libcrypt. What is the
state of it?
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NN
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