Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:54:45 -0700 (PDT) From: joes@teleport.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/21908: passwd_format is not documented in login.conf(5) Message-ID: <20001011085445.E547B37B503@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 21908 >Category: misc >Synopsis: passwd_format is not documented in login.conf(5) >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 11 02:00:04 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Joseph Stein >Release: 4.1-20000927-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD shasta.joescanner.com 4.1-20000927-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-20000927-STABLE #0: Fri Sep 29 20:15:28 PDT 2000 root@shasta.joescanner.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHASTA i386 >Description: I was trying to troubleshoot still having (MD5?) entries in the /etc/master.passwd file when my crypt libraries were supposedly the DES versions (so I was expecting the standard 13 character crypt style passwords). After digging through the website, I found the "securing FreeBSD" section of the handbook, that indicates that the 'passwd_format' field of /etc/login.conf determines the encryption algorithm in the password file. passwd_format is not mentioned in the online man-pages on my system (I have not checked the WWW version at freebsd.org). >How-To-Repeat: Install a base system from floppies >Fix: add passwd_format=des to /etc/login.conf >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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