Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:47:53 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> Cc: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@lmf.ericsson.se>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: passwd and libcrypt: got MD5 instead of DES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0011051241420.16868-100000@husten.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <20001105211055.A86142@albury.net.au>
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Nick Slager wrote: > Thus spake Martti Kuparinen (martti.kuparinen@lmf.ericsson.se): > > > I changed my password on our NIS server (FreeBSD 4.2-BETA) and > > now my password is MD5 instead of DES. This is not good as we > > have hosts in our network which don't speak MD5. > > > > Here are the libcrypt links: > > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Nov 2 14:06 libcrypt.a -> libdescrypt.a > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Nov 2 14:06 libcrypt.so -> libdescrypt.so > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Nov 2 14:06 libcrypt.so.2 -> libdescrypt.so.2 > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Nov 2 14:06 libcrypt_p.a -> libdescrypt_p.a > > Change 'em to point to the libscript* libraries. > Nah, the libdescrypt libraries are OK. libdescrypt handles both DES and MD5. Because of the new export laws, libscrypt is now more or less obsolete. Better just to alter "passwd_format" in login.conf. You would probably want "passwd_format=des". Check the login.conf(5) manpage. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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