From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 16:20:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7F614FD6 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:20:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id TAA99209 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:18:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) From: Mikhail Teterin Message-Id: <199904152318.TAA99209@misha.cisco.com> Subject: passwords: switching to DES To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:13:20 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL52 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To be able to share accounts with a Sun machine, I need to tell the users to recreate their password, so that they are in the DES form. The problem is, I don't know what to tell them. The NIS server is a FreeBSD-3.1-STABLE. If I create a new account there, the password is in DES form. But if I try to modify the existing user's password, it is created in MD5 form. Thanks for hints! -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message