From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 5:12: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [212.111.192.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF97137B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (Postfix, from userid 1122) id 413042FA82; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:11:46 +0200 (EET) From: Yaroslav Halchinsky To: Matt Heckaman Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.1-STABLE (i386)) Message-Id: <20001121131146.413042FA82@relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:11:46 +0200 (EET) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Heckaman wrote: > : And if I wanna manage both -- DES & MD5? For example I have about 200 > : users on one machine and I have no physical ability to make them > : change their passwords. It seems to me it worked fine somewhere > : between 3.4 and 4.0. > Oh boy. To be honest Alexandr, I have no idea if this is even possible. It > is my understanding that it is _not_ possible, but I've been known to be > wrong before. I'll pass this question off to those on the list who are > more knowledgeable than me in the area. :) Use libdescrypt. This permits to use both DES and MD5 hashes. From the times of 4.1.1-release passwd(1) honors passwd_format capability which defaults to md5. -- Regards, Yaroslav Halchinsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message