Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:28:38 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing md5 hashed for sha Message-ID: <444nq0mjjd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20120623153710.36e7446f@dijkstra.cruwe.de> (Christopher J. Ruwe's message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:37:10 %2B0200") References: <20120623153710.36e7446f@dijkstra.cruwe.de>
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"Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> writes: > For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has > been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the sense of > being more expensive to crack. > > The handbook describes the procedure used in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/crypt.html. > Allegedly, hashes which were hashed with one of the sha-functions begin > with the character $6$. > > Afer having changed my /etc/login.conf accordingly and having reset the > passwords, the given there is not md5 anymore (I have tried with md5), > but does not begin with the character $6$, but, as md5, with $1$, which > is supposed to be md5-hashed. I'm not following. Are you saying that you are resetting the passwords after setting login.conf, but new passwords aren't being created with the new hash type?
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