From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 16:41:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D2737B424 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f3MNekm57865; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:40:46 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:40:46 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Trevin Chow Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from DES to MD5 Message-ID: <20010423114046.A57203@itouchnz.itouch> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010422163755.00ae60b0@mail.geektank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010422163755.00ae60b0@mail.geektank.org>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:39:28PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:39:28PM -0700, Trevin Chow wrote: > I've done a bit of poking around and would like to know how to move from > DES passwords to MD5. Do I just have to change the symbolic links from > libcrypt* to libscrypt*? Currently they are pointing to the libdescrypt ones. If root sets the passwd for a users using passwd(1), any DES based password gets converted to a MD5 version under FreeBSD 4.2+ -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message