Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:36:59 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES & MD5? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906160933130.22473-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <37667C35.68E9E594@ispro.net.tr>
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> I think when you use MD5 or DES you can still have different kind of
> passwords in your password file.
You can. crypt() checks whether it's being passed a salt of the form
$1$...$, and if so, passes it to crypt_md5(), otherwise considers it as a DES
salt and sends it to crypt_des() (if DES support is compiled in).
So you can mix and match any passwords your crypt() knows how to parse. The
only problem is that standrd FreeBSD doesn't have a way to select which
password scheme you want: if you install the DES sources, you get DES
passwords, otherwise MD5, for your new passwords.
Kris
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