Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:30:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password format Message-ID: <199806250030.RAA00260@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:24:09 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624152031.303W-100000@localhost>
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(if this is -current related, it should have been on -current) > 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? I seem to recall you rooting around with your runtime linker environment. I suspect that this falls into the category of "collateral damage". The issue with your password files has to do with which crypt library is being used by default vs. which one(s) is/are installed. You'll have to work out what's going on beyond that yourself, I'm afraid. -- \\ 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
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