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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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