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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 1996 00:27:06 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   New Dual-personality crypt
Message-ID:  <199602250727.AAA26800@rocky.sri.MT.net>

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How can I force my passwords to be the old DES crypt function on a box
that previously used MD5 crypt?  There are only two accounts on it (mine
and root), but I'd like it to use DES like all of the other machines in
the group.

Even after I've re-run passwd after installing the new libraries and
binaries, it's still generating MD5 passwords instead of DES passwords.

How do I force it to generate old-style DES passwords in spite of what
the old passwords were, short of removing the password completely and
then re-generating passwords?  Shouldn't the new routine 'generate'
passwords using the default routines, but read passwords from both?


Nate



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