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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:24:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: password format 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624152031.303W-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199806241944.MAA01202@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > 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.

Didn't do NOSECURE.  Might have lost the DES libs .... yeah, they're in
/usr/lib, but not /usr/lib/aout.  I didn't have MAKE_EBONES defined,
could that have done it?  Otherwise, I've checked my make.conf
carefully, there's nothing about crypto defined, so should I add some
define to it?

> 
> -- 
> \\  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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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