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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:19:59 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>
To:        menger@dhs.org (Matthew Enger)
Cc:        proot@iaces.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Perl and freebsd
Message-ID:  <199908231319.IAA22125@iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908232041130.20790-100000@lion.kgv.edu.hk> from Matthew Enger at "Aug 23, 99 08:42:30 pm"

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In a previous message, Matthew Enger said:
> Hello,
> 	Thankyou, this helped in fix my crypt problem, but now passwords
> are being stored in master.passwd using DES, is it possible to have DES
> installed but still use md5 for the passwords stored in master.passwd?


No, as far as I know.

> 	from,
> 		Matthew Enger
> 		menger@dhs.org
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Paul T. Root wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:38:14 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Paul T. Root <proot@iaces.com>
> > To: menger@dhs.org
> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Perl and freebsd
> > 
> > Install DES, it's right there in /stand/sysinstall
> > 
> > In a previous message, menger@dhs.org said:
> > > Hello,
> > > 	I wrote a perl script which uses the unix crypt call to encrypt
> > > passwords and when I tried to move it over to freebsd from Linux I found
> > > that the passwords where no longer working as freenbsd seems to encrypt it
> > > into md5 instead of DES. Anyone got a solution for this problem without
> > > geting all my users to create a new password? 
> > > 
> > > 	This is also a concern as we have frontpage webs which have the
> > > passwords in DES as well and it is causing authentication to fail with a
> > > fresh compile of apache 1.3.9 on FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE.
> > > 
> > > 	If anyone knows what is wrong and a possible solution I would
> > > appricate soem assistance. 
> > > 
> > > 	from,
> > > 		Matthew Enger
> > > 		menger@dhs.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
> >                 -- Publilius Syrus
> > 
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> 


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