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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:31:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To:        Rik <freesd-security@rikrose.net>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MD5 > Blowfish
Message-ID:  <200201092131.g09LVVb70198@tick.sc.omation.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020109032040.GA16874@spoon.pkl.net>

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Rik wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:40:30PM -0800, Erick Mechler wrote:
> >      passwd_format     string    md5       The encryption format that new or
>
> I still haven't worked out where you set the number of rounds to use
> with blowfish encryption. On OpenBSD this was a setting in login.conf
> (iirc). Where do I set it on FreeBSD?

Generally speaking, you can't.  However, you may always generate
the passwd hash yourself (i.e. with crypt(3)/perl), which is what
scripts like adduser do anyway.

Patches to libutil, passwd and adduser welcome...  :-)

-Paul.


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