From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 13:43:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BBD37BDE5 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 13:43:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.10.1/8.10.0) id e47Khes53125; Sun, 7 May 2000 13:43:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200005072043.e47Khes53125@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: /etc/passwd format change In-Reply-To: <200005071946.OAA67949@tim.281.com> from Joe Schwartz at "May 7, 2000 02:46:39 pm" To: Joe Schwartz Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 13:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ___________________________ | Bhishan Hemrajani | | Finger | | bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org | | for public pgp key. | | | | The best part about mswin | / ) | is that you can dl FreeBSD| / / | with it! | ( ( | | (((\ \> |/ )bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org| (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| \ / \ _/ / / / / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message