Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:50:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "(System Admin) J Peterson" <jay@qtm.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Shadow passwd encryption method... Message-ID: <19991205025005.B77822@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991205033157.13519A-100000@garcon.qtm.net>; from "(System Admin) J Peterson" on Sun Dec 5 03:35:33 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991205033157.13519A-100000@garcon.qtm.net>
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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
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