From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 18:14:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC43E37B423; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA83958; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:14:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Jim Mercer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Brian Feldman Subject: Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES In-Reply-To: <20000928165127.L22260@reptiles.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: > > i installed some systems using the 4.0-RELEASE cd, then > cvsup to 4.x-stable and those systems use DES passwds, which is what > i want. > > 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 14 10:01:02 EDT 2000 > > then i installed some more systems, using a 4.1-RELEASE cd, then cvsup > to 4.x-stable but these systems insist on using MD5 crypts in the passwd > file. > > 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 28 16:45:58 PKT 2000 > > is this a feature or a bug? > > how do i get these systems to revert to using DES crypts for the passwd file? Set the value of the passwd_format login capability to "des" in /etc/login.conf. Brian Feldman neglected to document or mention this in the release notes at all, as far as I can tell. No cookie! Please fix this ASAP, Brian. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message