Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:09:08 +0800 From: "James Lim" <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg> To: "Peter Lai" <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: does 4.2 password encryption change break `checkpasswd'? Message-ID: <016901c05e68$bccf8420$fa5e78cb@gchang> References: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019F18@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu>
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Hi there,
Is your /etc/password using MD5 or DES? does the first char of
the password starts with a $ sign in the passwd file ( which means it is
using MD5).
James Lim
Technical Support Executive
Pacific Internet Limited
89 Science Park Drive
#02-05/06 The Rutherford
Singapore 118261
Finger evilfry@sg.freebsd.org for PGP key.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Lai" <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>
To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:02 AM
Subject: does 4.2 password encryption change break `checkpasswd'?
> hi i remember there being some discussion when FreeBSD 4.2 was released
that
> it changed the /etc/passwd encryption from DES to MD5 or vice versa or
> something...
>
> I am trying to use the `checkpasswd' port so I can use qmail-pop3d. Having
> run through some pretty basic diagnostics it appears that checkpasswd
fails
> to authenticate a valid user found in /etc/passwd.
>
> (namely running `qmail-popup' to call `checkpasswd' and then after
> `checkpasswd' authenticates, it calls `pwd' so it lists the directory).
> this process fails the authentication step which means that `checkpasswd'
is
> failing
>
> Is this because of the password scheme change from 4.1 to 4.2 or something
> else? everything has been installed by default from ports.
> the smtp and local parts of qmail works flawlessly and delivers stuff
> straight to Maildir.
>
>
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