From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 11 6:21:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from supra.rotterdam.luna.net (supra.rotterdam.luna.net [194.151.24.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5254F14D11 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephanb@luna.nl) Received: (from stephanb@localhost) by supra.rotterdam.luna.net (•8.8.8/tcpwrp+ismx/8.8.8/chk+tcpwrpr) id PAA12831; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:20:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:20:54 +0100 From: Stephan van Beerschoten To: phil grainger Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mucked up an install... Message-ID: <19991111152054.C8293@supra.rotterdam.luna.net> References: <199911111413.AAA25378@gdr.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199911111413.AAA25378@gdr.dhis.org>; from phil grainger on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:13:20AM +1000 Organization: Luna Internet Services http://www.luna.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:13:20AM +1000, phil grainger wrote: > the root password is now about 3 times the length of > every other user on the system ... Does the hash start with $1$Of or something like that ? My guess is that you (or some co-admin) has enabled MD5 hashing on your machine, and that by changing passwords, you change from DES to MD5 too. -Steve -- Stephan van Beerschoten Email: stephanb@luna.nl Network Engineer Luna Internet Services www.luna.nl PO Box 28013 3003 KA Rotterdam NL PGPKey fingerprint = 45 57 97 61 B2 12 FB 4C 77 8D 35 29 C4 2A 2D 27 The perl script is correct if its get this job done before your boss fires you To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message