From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 07:58:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04635 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04586 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA23944; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:49:44 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V2.0) id xma023942; Thu, 15 Jan 98 17:49:18 +0200 Message-ID: <34BE31E2.45B@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:57:22 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Bedrossian CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Master.passwd encryption change. References: <34BE2494.6EF08E@gcsl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greg Bedrossian wrote: > > Greetings, > > Is there anyone out there that has done or knows how to change password > authentication and encryption from MD5 to DES. We already know we can > install DES, but how do we actually convert between algorithems? > > Greg You don't. By installing DES, all passwords that are added/changed after the installation will be encrypted using DES. Since you can't (hopefuly) decipher the MD5 passwords there's no way to convert the old passwords. However, no harm will be done. Each password will be authenticated with the right algorithm. Nadav