From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 10:03:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA11434 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11285 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA07008 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:01:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:01:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: password format Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently have had an odd thing happened, I rebuilt my system, and all the passwords were suddenly invalidated. The clue I get is from running vipw, where the old passwords (in encrypted format) don't seem to follow any paatern, but the new ones are all prefaced by "$1$". I need to upgrade a machine that has a lot of existing passwords, and I really can't afford to lose them all, so I need to see what happened and avoid it. Can anyone explain this to me? I suspect something with regards to maybe md5 formatting or something, but I don't know the right man page to read to figure this one out. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message