From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 20: 9:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655DB37B802 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrant.intranova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EE1E0E8D; Wed, 17 May 2000 23:10:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:10:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Ken Bolingbroke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MD5 --> DES ? 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 Wed, 17 May 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > So, several months ago I installed a new server for our lab, and as I > always do, I selected MD5 encryption for the passwords. Now that I'm in > the middle of setting up this machine as a NIS server for the various > other machines in the lab, I find that some other flavors of UNIX don't > like MD5. Oops. > > OK, so no problem, I can actually keep a separate master.passwd file for > the NIS accounts anyway, I just need to populate them with DES encrypted > passwords. > > So my question is, how do I create DES encrypted passwords from Perl? I > tried compiling a new perl binary pointing at libdescrypt, but somehow > crypt() still uses MD5. > > Ken Bolingbroke > hacker@bolingbroke.com > Your problem maybe that libcrypt was statically linked to the Perl binary, in that case you will have to recompile and link to the new libcrypt (libdescrypt) library. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message