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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:53:52 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: closet homoeroticism in -STABLE?!?
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008031152150.281-100000@armani.yourfit.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A78850EF802D211BB3900805FFE55550BA86E@atl_es1.megatrends.com>

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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Vinesh Christopher wrote:

> I also ran into the same problem. I couldn't login to my box after upgrading
> from 4.0-S to 4.1-R
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Gill [SMTP:jamgill@UU.NET]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:43 PM
> > To:	freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> > Subject:	closet homoeroticism in -STABLE?!?
> > 
> > 
> > such an attention-getting subject, i should write for weekly world news.
> > check out these two entries from /etc/master.passwd :
> > 
> > gill:0BI5r7TYic5NI:1001:1001::0:0:gill:/home/gill:/bin/tcsh
> > nill:$1$ZdxdtsZc$gayCmDvdyPyNknWKTOCQL.:1002:1002::0:0:nill:/home/nill:/bi
> > n/tcsh
> > 
> > they have the same password, but second encrypted one is totally
> > different.  the uid 1001 was created yesterday immediately after the
> > 4.1-RELEASE install.  the uid 1002 was created after the following steps
> > were taken.  is there some change in the hash used for passwords between
> > 4.1-R and 4.1-S?

    The installation gives you the option of using the traditional
UNIX encryption or MD5.  I gather you used the latter on your upgrade.

    Worst case, boot from floppy, get into the fixit shell, and fixit.

--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net



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