From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 03:54:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19474 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 03:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19448 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 03:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from p23a.neon.sentex.ca (p23a.neon.sentex.ca [207.245.212.216]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA26713; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:53:29 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mixed DES and MD5 password file Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:41:23 GMT Message-ID: <351f83e9.601135407@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:58:42 -0800 (PST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > >> Hi people. >> >> I'm in the process of upgrading a couple of Linux web servers to >> FreeBSD. Question is, I'd like to use md5 on the FreeBSD box, >> but I'd also like to be able to use the old password files. >This isn't possible, I don't think. In order to use MD5 everything has to >be in MD5 format, but the old passwords are in DES. The replacement Can you not append a $1$ to the password in the master.passwd file to distinguish between it and DES style ? e.g. I have something similar in my master.passwd file root:$1$cvKgX$0OWz9X0S99E1WZZ3Qabc1Q0:0:0::0:0:System Administrator:/root:/bin/csh userguy:i0WVrv7YUOsZY:8761:118::0:0:A User,,,:/home/userguy:/bin/csh (No, the hashes are not real) ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message