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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:42:31 +0800
From:      Chris Waltham <chris@insurancemyway.com.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Problem with DES/MD5
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010201114007.01890ee8@mail.insurancemyway.com.au>

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Hi guys,

I'm having a bit of trouble with NIS under FreeBSD - I have one machine
that's 4.1-REL and the other is 4.2. It would seem that one of the
machines (the 4.1 box) has MD5 installed as the standard crypto library,
whilst the 4.2 machine is using DES.

I've looked through the handbook regarding this, and it says that the
passwd format to use is defined in /etc/login.conf
(http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/crypt.html). Similarly, man login.conf
didn't help me any; and the NIS page in the handbook doesn't have any
solutions for library incompatibilities (though they acknowledge the
existence of them).

login.conf doesn't contain any references to a crypt method of any sort,
so I presume this is just out of date and needs changing. Where else could
I look? We'd rather use MD5 than DES, is there some way we can "uninstall"
the DES libs from the 4.2 box?

thanks a bunch,


chris



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