From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 15 10:58: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9931914DDD for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 75697 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Jun 1999 17:57:57 +0000 (GMT) To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES & MD5? From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:23:38 +0200" References: <6934.929467418@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:57:57 +0200 Message-ID: <75695.929469477@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I belive it works that way, but not the other way around, unless you > have the DES kit installed. > > In message , Barrett R > ichardson writes: > > > > > >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. I have a machine with mixed MD5/DES passwords, and it works just fine. (Yes, libcrypt is a symlink to libdescrypt.) Unfortunately new users get DES passwords. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message