From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 22:36:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12678 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:36:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12660 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA17603; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:35:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Imran Aslam , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: DES to MD5 References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 17 Dec 1998 07:35:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Spike Gronim's message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:50:01 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spike Gronim writes: > 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) MD5 is always there; if you install the DES libraries you will have DES support in addition to MD5 support. You can switch from MD5 to DES effortlessly since you don't need to change your MD5 passwords. Switching the other way is more difficult. I'm not certain how to control which encryption is used by default; ISTR that if DES support is available, it becomes the default, but I don't know if or how that can be overridden. 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