Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 19:28:48 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: John Barton <jbarton@technicalworks.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems patching 4.6 Message-ID: <20020703182848.GB60362@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207030953340.25185-100000@damocles.highridgefire.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207030953340.25185-100000@damocles.highridgefire.com>
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:11:32AM -0500, John Barton wrote:
> I seems to me that the password encryption scheme may have been
> changed. If I change user account passwd from the command line as
> root, I can now login, but I notice that my encrypted passwd in
> /etc/master.passwd went from the standard 12 characters to almost 35
> characters. This password file is on a radius server and is actually
> copied over from another machine, and this setup has always worked
> in the past.
Correct. You need to edit the file /etc/login.conf and change the
line that says:
:passwd_format=md5:\
to read
:passwd_format=des:\
then run `cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf'
(If there isn't a passwd_format line just insert it right after where it says
default:\
)
This will cause your machine to default to using the old-style DES
password hash. md5 is preferable, being more secure, but DES is more
compatible with other systems.
Matthew
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