From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 15:34:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23863 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23735 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA25043; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:34:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Tancsa cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mixed DES and MD5 password file In-Reply-To: <351f83e9.601135407@mail.sentex.net> 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 On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> I'm in the process of upgrading a couple of Linux web servers to > >> FreeBSD. Question is, I'd like to use md5 on the FreeBSD box, > >> but I'd also like to be able to use the old password files. > > >This isn't possible, I don't think. In order to use MD5 everything has to > >be in MD5 format, but the old passwords are in DES. The replacement > > Can you not append a $1$ to the password in the master.passwd file to > distinguish between it and DES style ? e.g. I have something similar > in my master.passwd file Yes, you can do that. However, you can't *generate* MD5 passwords once the DESified libcrypt is installed. MD5 and DES passwords are still checked however. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message