Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:40:20 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Encryption Problems Message-ID: <20001129124020.A88921@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011291214300.60488-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011291214300.60488-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be
> definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to
> be MD5 although I did not change anything
I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes -- if not someone
really should have put this in there.
Anyway, `man login.conf' and look for "passwd_format".
> Why? Has anything changed in FreeBSD in the meanwhile?
Yes. I'll let someome else give the why and how.
IMHO, there should be a "I want MD5 by default, but when changing a
password keep the hash format the same" option.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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