From owner-freebsd-security Sun Oct 1 15: 3:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0479937B503; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (hu0wi9@localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by green.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e91LsB550028; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:56:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200010012156.e91LsB550028@green.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: achilov@granch.ru Cc: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MD5 passwords vs DES In-Reply-To: Message from "Rashid N. Achilov" of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 03:22:08 +0700." <39D79CF0.D794F732@sentry.granch.ru> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 17:54:10 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Rashid N. Achilov" wrote: > "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > > > > I have a question: > > > > Do anybody have ideas to add 'default crypting mode' for utilities > > like passwd, adduser, etc ? > > > > Manually change for all users passwords to MD5, than simply edit symlink > libcrypt.so.2 (I assume 4.1-RELEASE) to point to a libscrypt.so.2 and > libcrypt.a to point to a libscrypt.a. Now you can't use DES passwords > until revert back links, but all created users now will have MD5-crypted > passwords Nah, the functionality's already there. Your passwords will default to md5, or whatever is specified in /etc/login.conf as passwd_format. This is 4.1.1-RELEASE and onward. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message