From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 12:40:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D7337B404 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA79967; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eATKeLX89054; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:40:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:40:20 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Encryption Problems Message-ID: <20001129124020.A88921@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message