From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 13:57:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.reptiles.org (mailbox.reptiles.org [198.96.117.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BAC37B43F for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (957 bytes) by mailbox.reptiles.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:57:27 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.108 1999-Sep-19 #3 built 1999-Oct-27) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:57:27 -0400 From: Jim Mercer To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/login.conf + passwd_format + new? MD5 default? Message-ID: <20000928165727.M22260@reptiles.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG as per my last message, i discovered that an entry of: :passwd_format=des: in /etc/login.conf will reset the crypts back to DES. note: passwd_format is not documented anywhere close to adequately to inform people of its function. also, is the new default for FreeBSD going to be MD5? if so, a note should be made somewhere. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message