From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 14: 0:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whiterose.net (whiterose.net [199.245.105.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B4B37B6A2 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccrider2k (adsl-141-151-201-154.cptl.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.151.201.154]) by whiterose.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f0CM0Ft31372; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:00:25 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" To: "'Paul MacKenzie'" , Subject: RE: Switch from MD5 to DES on 4.2 FreeBSD: cannot set password cipher Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:50:12 -0500 Message-ID: <000101c07ce2$bac3a150$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010111101725.034f46c8@mail.elehost.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have been working to allow some old user accounts to work > with their DES > passwords on a new FreeBSD 4.2 machine. > I have the same situation here, I am running Linux with DES, and when BSD installed it was using MD5. What I did was just go into /stand/sysinstall and install the DES stuff. When I manually add the password to the passwd file, it will read it fine, when I change the password, it is then MD5. I didn't have to symlink any of the libs. Maybe I did it wrong ;) But it works. Robert Myers Systems Administrator http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message