From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 14: 8:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8082C37B720 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f32L72g35978; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:07:02 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:07:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Alexander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some things about security (3rd time) Message-ID: <20010403090702.A35107@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from amour@bugs.elitsat.net on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:34:43PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message