Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:07:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Alexander <amour@bugs.elitsat.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some things about security (3rd time) Message-ID: <20010403090702.A35107@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104022230350.75868-100000@bugs.elitsat.net>; from amour@bugs.elitsat.net on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:34:43PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104022230350.75868-100000@bugs.elitsat.net>
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:34:43PM +0300, Alexander wrote:
> Sorry for bothering you ppl, but I really need to know how to fix few
> things on my FreeBSD box. I cam from linux and I'm still a newbie to bsd.
> My question is, why when I use adduser to add a user it uses DES to
> encrypt his/her pass ? But when I `passwd username` and change his/her
> pass the password is MD5 ? How can I make it to use MD5 by default ? (the
> adduser command)
Hmm. That behaviour isn't quite right, IMHO. You might want to
send-pr(1) the problem about adduser(8). I suspect that pw(8) may
behave the way you expect it to.
> And, why the permissions in /home/ are so public ? Every user can read in
> other home directories ? I can fix it with chmod but do I have to do it
> every time ?
It may pay to voice these queries in your problem-report, it's
something worth having within adduser.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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