From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 15 10:13: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix (phoenix.aye.net [198.7.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76AAD15130 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barrett@phoenix.aye.net) Received: (qmail 12231 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Jun 1999 17:12:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 1999 17:12:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:12:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Barrett Richardson To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Holtor , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES & MD5? In-Reply-To: <37667C35.68E9E594@ispro.net.tr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Hello, > I think when you use MD5 or DES you can still have different kind of > passwords in your password file. > I have found this when I accidentally changed from DES to MD5 at an > installation and it was working (we did not even understand the > difference > > Some of my colleagues here claimed they dropped an MD5 master.passwd file onto a machine on which a DES master.passwd had previously been and they said it worked. I didn't believe them at the time. - Barrett Richardson barrett@phoenix.aye.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message