Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:00:27 -0800 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Colin Legendre <sudz@ns3g.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <20010309160027.A21912@dell.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <KGEOJAKEENHJJGNECGDJCEELCDAA.sudz@ns3g.com>; from sudz@ns3g.com on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:33:05AM -0500 References: <KGEOJAKEENHJJGNECGDJCEELCDAA.sudz@ns3g.com>
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:33:05AM -0500, Colin Legendre wrote: > I have noticed that adduser crypts the password using DES and not MD5. > Anyway to change this. Adduser does things in a very oldschool way and has race conditions when handling multiple users. I'm not sure if its crypt salt will force DES hashes or not. I wrote a replacement script, "enteruser" which calls pw to create users, and is altigether safer to hack on to suit your own purposes. You can read about / obtain enteruser at http://www.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html HTH, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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