Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:44:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password format Message-ID: <199806241944.MAA01202@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:01:37 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624115843.303S-100000@localhost>
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> 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. You probably built with NOSECURE, and lost your DES libraries. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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