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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: md5?
Message-ID:  <20010803041324.48700.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010802210023.A10332@citusc17.usc.edu>

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Kris,

So how does one make adduser generate a MD5 password
instead of DES? I've got passwd_format=md5 in my
login.conf and ran that cap_mkdb command on it and it
still generates DES. This seems to be the only issue I
see -- a problem with adduser perhaps?

Holt

--- Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:24:32PM -0700, Holtor
> wrote:
> > You guys seem to miss my point.. This is what I
> did
> > back several months ago. And i had:
> > NODESCRYPTLINKS=true in /etc/make.conf so when
> make
> > world went threw it didn't demolish my links. Now
> it
> > appears as if that option does nothing. After
> looking
> > in /usr/lib there are not any symlinks at all
> anymore.
> > They are actual libraries in place of where links
> to
> > libscrypt and libdescrypt could go. Thats whats
> > confused me, something recently - within the past
> week
> > perhaps has changed.
> 
> Yes, there are no longer two separate libraries. 
> You control which of
> MD5 or DES passwords you get via the login.conf
> capability, and
> whether or not you install the crypto sources (or
> binaries built from
> them).  i.e. you still need to install the crypto
> code to get DES
> passwords, but whether or not you do you still get
> only one libcrypt,
> not a symlink pointing to one of two locations.
> 
> The ability to select MD5/DES in login.conf was
> added in 4.2 or 4.3 --
> you no longer need to play games with symlinks and
> any documentation
> which tells you to do so is out of date.
> 
> Kris

> 

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