Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:52:28 -0400 From: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@metrics.com> To: "'Erick Mechler'" <emechler@techometer.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.4 and DES Message-ID: <6B3C6B6F7AA2D511A35E0080C86993435969@syncro.metrics.com>
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Ah-ha! That's all I needed to get DES working ...
Is this the -current man page?
Also, the handbook still talks about symlinking libraries ... that's how I
got onto that track.
Thanks, Erick (and others who made helpful suggestions)
Tom Haapanen
tomh@metrics.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Mechler [mailto:emechler@techometer.net]
Sent: Friday, 12 October, 2001 14:28
To: Haapanen, Tom
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 and DES
:: Has anyone successfully got DES working with FreeBSD 4.4? I need this to
:: get FrontPage 2002 server extensions running ...
The correct place to make the change is in login.conf. From the manpage,
under the AUTHENTICATION section...
passwd_format string md5 The encryption format that new
or changed passwords will use.
Valid values include "des",
"md5" and "blf". NIS clients
using a non-FreeBSD NIS server
should probably use "des".
The libcrypt libraries that ship with 4.4 (actually, they were committed
sometime in 4.3-STABLE, I do believe) contain the code for both md5 and
des, so there's no need to have separate libraries anymore (see crypt(3)).
I might suggest creating a separate login class for your FrontPage users
that uses des, and continue using md5 for everyone else.
Cheers - Erick
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