Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: doka@vl.kharkov.ua Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is unDES possible? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922215133.6177P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <605mah$fs7$1@grunt.vl.net.ua>
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On 22 Sep 1997 doka@vl.kharkov.ua wrote: > Hello! > > I was installed DES support in FreeBSD. As I understand, installing DES > affects only in password encoding, isn't it? I think it modifies crypt() too. > Now I want using MD5 for password > encryption. Can I restore MD5? If so, how can I do this? Copy the crypt libs back out of the binary distribution for your release. Anyone who changed their password will *break* however, since the des-ified crypt libs know MD5 but not vice-versa. Also some network utils (like NIS) require DES encryption for proper communication with other servers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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