From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 6 7:39:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from inbox.org (inbox.org [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E239B14BE7 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13735; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:37:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. K." X-Sender: bsd@inbox.org To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Cameron, Frank" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org if you set the passwords to expire on the next login, will this accomplish switching from DES to MD5, or will the old format be kept? On 6 Oct 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Cameron, Frank" writes: > > Is it possible to change a user from DES to MD5 and/or make MD5 the > > default? > > Respectively, no and yes. You can make MD5 the default by switching > over the /usr/lib/libcrypt* symlinks to point to libscrypt instead of > libdescrypt. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message