From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 18:32:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mw5.texas.net (mw5.texas.net [206.127.30.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5399D37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.texas.net (tcnet06-03.austin.texas.net [209.99.35.3]) by mw5.texas.net (2.4/2.4) with ESMTP id UAA19651; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:32:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dread@localhost) by localhost.texas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02301; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:32:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001027111926.A51348@cpl.net> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:31:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: Shawn Ramsey Subject: RE: DES passwd Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-00 Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I am trying to enable DES passwords on a 4.1.1-RELEASE machine. I installed > the crypto distribution. And now at least "adduser" encrypts passwords with > DES. But "passwd" does not. I tried recompiling. I thought all I did before > (3.4-RELEASE) was install the same package, and passwd encrypted with DES. > I tried coping the libdescryt libs to the same name as passwd points to, but > it still encrypts with MD5 passwds. :( > if you already have a MD5 password, passwd will use MD5 for the new one. vipw and zero out the passwd field, have user login then set a new password. Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net There are old sailors, and there are foolish sailors; but damn few old foolish sailors. --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message