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Date:      Sun, 01 Oct 2000 17:54:10 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        achilov@granch.ru
Cc:        "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: MD5 passwords vs DES 
Message-ID:  <200010012156.e91LsB550028@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>  of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 03:22:08 %2B0700." <39D79CF0.D794F732@sentry.granch.ru> 

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"Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru> 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.


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