From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 16: 2:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A919637B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:02:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DC3245D74; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:00:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:00:27 -0800 From: dannyman To: Colin Legendre Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <20010309160027.A21912@dell.dannyland.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from sudz@ns3g.com on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:33:05AM -0500 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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