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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:22:49 +0200
From:      "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: changing md5 hashed for sha
Message-ID:  <20120625202249.1d872edf@dijkstra.cruwe.de>
In-Reply-To: <444nq0mjjd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20120623153710.36e7446f@dijkstra.cruwe.de> <444nq0mjjd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:28:38 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> writes:
>=20
> > For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has
> > been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the
> > sense of being more expensive to crack.
> >
> > The handbook describes the procedure used in
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/crypt.html.
> > Allegedly, hashes which were hashed with one of the sha-functions
> > begin with the character $6$.
> >
> > Afer having changed my /etc/login.conf accordingly and having reset
> > the passwords, the given there is not md5 anymore (I have tried
> > with md5), but does not begin with the character $6$, but, as md5,
> > with $1$, which is supposed to be md5-hashed.
>=20
> I'm not following. Are you saying that you are resetting the passwords
> after setting login.conf, but new passwords aren't being created with
> the new hash type?=20
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Yes, you are following correctly that the hash mechanism did not appear
to have changed. It was OSI-8 error on my part, as Mike Tancsa (one
message later) helped me to understand.

Cheers,
--=20
Christopher J. Ruwe
TZ: GMT + 2h

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