From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 12:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14028 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14005 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01202; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806241944.MAA01202@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password format In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:01:37 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:44:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. 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