From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 2 2:25:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A3D14FBC for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 02:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA24465; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 02:13:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <381EBB23.71658E8E@aracnet.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 02:21:23 -0800 From: "D.M.P." Organization: dmp@aracnet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Manjoine Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encryption in freebsd References: <4.1.19991101141319.00bdbaa0@mail.vpr.uiowa.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Manjoine wrote: > > > I have resently updated my freebsd from 3.2 to 3.3. > > I got everything put back in place and everything runs fine except > > for logins > > I found out after comparing a new login that works to the old > > logins in the master.passwd file that the encryption is different > > I think I am using DES encryption rather than MD5 is there any way > > I can convert the MD5 encrypted logins to DES or can I change the > > default authentication to MD5? You can't convert the MD5 passwords to DES, but you install the DES encryption from sysinstall. -- "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Truth and faithfulness are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message