From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 21:55:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16480 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16475 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06368; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: doka@vl.kharkov.ua cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is unDES possible? In-Reply-To: <605mah$fs7$1@grunt.vl.net.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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