Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 13:43:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> To: Joe Schwartz <rjoe@tim.281.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd format change Message-ID: <200005072043.e47Khes53125@cytosine.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <200005071946.OAA67949@tim.281.com> from Joe Schwartz at "May 7, 2000 02:46:39 pm"
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You are using DES encryption, when you want to use MD5.
Read the handbook on how to change it. It's just a matter
of changing a couple symlinks.
--bhishan
>
> On a FreeBSD 3.2 machine that I help some folks administer,
> the /etc/master.passwd file has started issuing short encrypted
> passwords instead of the long 30+ character ones.
>
> It behaves OK except when an e-mail client like Eudora or Netscpae
> try to authenticate,
>
> How do I return the machine to producing the long encryption?
>
> Thanks.
>
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