From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 16 8:24:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from serveri.netti.fi (serveri.netti.fi [195.16.192.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88518156B0 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from ispro.net.tr (dyn-4-163.tku.netti.fi [195.16.219.164]) by serveri.netti.fi (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA05706; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:22:55 +0300 Message-ID: <3767C100.FC79A42D@ispro.net.tr> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:21:37 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES & MD5? References: <6934.929467418@critter.freebsd.dk> <75695.929469477@verdi.nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org if you do ot link libcrypt to libdescrypt you would get MD5 passwords for the new users, Evren sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > I belive it works that way, but not the other way around, unless you > > have the DES kit installed. > > > > In message , Barrett R > > ichardson writes: > > > > > > > > >Some of my colleagues here claimed they dropped an MD5 master.passwd > > >file onto a machine on which a DES master.passwd had previously been > > >and they said it worked. I didn't believe them at the time. > > I have a machine with mixed MD5/DES passwords, and it works just fine. > (Yes, libcrypt is a symlink to libdescrypt.) > > Unfortunately new users get DES passwords. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message