From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 0:50:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BA315218 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 00:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA78092; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:50:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:50:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "(System Admin) J Peterson" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions List Subject: Re: Shadow passwd encryption method... Message-ID: <19991205025005.B77822@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from "(System Admin) J Peterson" on Sun Dec 5 03:35:33 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 05), (System Admin) J Peterson said: > Okay, we've got 7000+ users in our passwd file on the following system: > FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP #0: Tue Apr 28 20:04:19 EDT 1998 > When I imported them to the new installation, all the usernames worked and > everything but I couldnt log in with any of the old passwords! > Did the encryption change between the one above and the current one? > Heres the snap of what we run now: > FreeBSD 3.3-19991203-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 4 19:01:16 EST 1999 Make sure that you installed the DES crypto libs. Chances are that your passwd file has all DES passwords, and a plain FreeBSD install uses only MD5. You should be able to add DES support through sysinstall ( Configure / Distributions / DES / DES ). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message