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 > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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