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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 1999 06:38:42 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Minh Huynh <minhh@healtheon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't change password
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070636220.286-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <37FBD2EA.E3F2A7BD@healtheon.com>

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FreeBSD has (at least) two password encryption shemes:

DES (... regular) entry in /etc/master.passwd
MD5 - encoded password starts with $1$

in case if you installed DES and uninstalled it later, there could
be DES entries, which are not acceptiable

Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)

 Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Minh Huynh wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD version 3.1 and am having trouble changing
> password. This is what I got when trying to change password:
> 
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: corrupted entry
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> 
> Please let me how I can fix this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Minh
> 
> 
> 
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