From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 6:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB06C37B66C for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 06:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9FDpea11569 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:51:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:51:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "O. Hartmann" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: KDE and DES-password encryption failure Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sirs. I recently installed FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE on a box. After configuring and finetunig the system I installed KDE 1.1.2 as the GUI. But I ran into problems! The encryption scheme for the system is DES, not MD5. KDE allows to lock screen, but I can not type in any kind of password, it is not accepted. Only for those users with a MD5 stylish password in the password database access is granted. I installed KDE from the ports database. It seems that this is mainly compiled against MD5 encryption scheme. I do not want myself to compile the whole KDE on the installed machine, because it is an older Pentium 200 system and it is not very fast. Can anybody tell me how I can figure KDE to accept DES styl passowrds? Maybe it is only the screen-lock facility, but I do not know so I want to ask before trying myself to get rid of the problem and likely destroying the installed system again. Thanks in advance, - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 FAX: +496131/3923235 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message