From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 5:42:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garcon.qtm.net (qtm.net [206.53.233.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357BA14EE3 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 05:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jay@qtm.net) Received: from ENFORCER (enforcer.qtm.net [216.163.32.5]) by garcon.qtm.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA04831; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:40:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Network Admin [JPeterson]" To: "Dan Nelson" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions List" Subject: RE: Shadow passwd encryption method... Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:40:35 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <19991205025005.B77822@dan.emsphone.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In the last episode (Dec 05), (System Admin) J Peterson said: > > Okay, we've got 7000+ users in our passwd file on the following system: > > FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP #0: Tue Apr 28 20:04:19 EDT 1998 > > When I imported them to the new installation, all the usernames > worked and > > everything but I couldnt log in with any of the old passwords! > > Did the encryption change between the one above and the current one? > > Heres the snap of what we run now: > > FreeBSD 3.3-19991203-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 4 19:01:16 EST 1999 > > Make sure that you installed the DES crypto libs. Chances are that > your passwd file has all DES passwords, and a plain FreeBSD install > uses only MD5. You should be able to add DES support through > sysinstall ( Configure / Distributions / DES / DES ). > Okay, once I have installed that, how do I enable using that encryption, and does it still support the old encryption? (i.e. will the passwds that I already have reset with MD5 still work once I reboot or am I going to be locked out because root's passwd is MD5?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message