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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 02:28:27 +1100 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: secure & eBones
Message-ID:  <199702251528.CAA03708@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970225140132.joe@florence.pavilion.net> from Josef Karthauser at "Feb 25, 97 02:01:32 pm"

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Josef Karthauser writes:

> If I pull down eBones and secure (from the internat site) and do
> a make install will my password file break (it is currently in
> MD5 format I believe).

No, it won't due to a really neat pair of lines that say ..

        if (!strncmp(setting, "$1$", 3))
                return crypt_md5(key, setting);

So even when you change the symbolic links to point at the DES stuff, the
old passwords continue to work.

> p.s I need secure so that I can run an apache SSL server

This didn't used to work on 2.1.x and SSLeay .. maybe someone else could
confirm (I run -current's secure with 2.1.7 in "production"),

	michael



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