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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:27:50 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
Cc:        Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hmm..passwords.
Message-ID:  <20001121082750.A2922@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210704230.88234-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:09:57AM -0500
References:  <20001121135541.A14220@nevermind.kiev.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210704230.88234-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:09:57AM -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Nevermind wrote:
> ...
> : The same thing...
> : Mabe the point is in DES/md5 passwords?
>=20
> FreeBSD has actually defaulted to MD5 passwords for quite a long time to
> those of us not within the US. However, installing the US crypto has
> always forced the usage of DES passwords by default. In order to switch
> your machine back to DES passwords from MD5 passwords, this is what you
> need to do:

No longer correct. You don't need to futz with libraries and symlinks
any more, only change the value of the passwd_format login capability
in /etc/login.conf. The default is MD5 passwords for new accounts.

Kris

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