Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:31:00 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Matt Harrington <matt@ucsd.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vipw fails on DES passwords *URGENT* Message-ID: <20010611133100.A45161@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0f215$685db2e0$3201a8c0@cosmo>; from matt@ucsd.EDU on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:25:29PM -0700 References: <000b01c0f215$685db2e0$3201a8c0@cosmo>
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:25:29PM -0700, Matt Harrington wrote:
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>
> I have an /etc/passwd file from another UNIX system which uses DES
> passwords. My /etc/passwd on FreeBSD appears to use MD5 passwords, but I
> did make changes in /usr/lib to allow DES passwords to be recognized by NIS.
> (Basically, I'm getting rid of NIS and want to merge the password file from
> my old NIS master server into my FreeBSD's passwd file.) I also made the
> proper change to /etc/login.conf. What else do I need to do? Can't "vipw"
> process DES passwords? I've appended the output from "vipw", info about my
> libcrypt links in /usr/lib, and an excerpt from /etc/login.conf.
vipw handles DES passwords fine. What I suspect is that the format of
your password file doesn't match the FreeBSD one. If you look at the
number of fields, you'll see that under vipw, FreeBSD has *more* fields
than a standard UNIX /etc/passwd.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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