From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 5 7: 6: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from drawbridge.ctc.com (drawbridge.ctc.com [147.160.99.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFB9152BF for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cameron@ctc.com) Received: by drawbridge.ctc.com; id KAA07473; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from server2.ctc.com(147.160.1.4) by drawbridge.ctc.com via smap (V2.0) id xma007394; Tue, 5 Oct 99 10:02:55 -0400 Received: from ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com (ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com [147.160.34.4]) by server2.ctc.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA27641; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:02:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:01:00 -0400 Message-ID: <604CC98C4E6BD311AEF900A0C9EA54E1878ACD@ctcjst-mail1.ctc.com> From: "Cameron, Frank" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "'Dag-Erling Smorgrav'" Subject: RE: Long username/password Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:00:59 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is it possible to change a user from DES to MD5 and/or make MD5 the default? (I recently noticed that my password on one of my FreeBSD boxes is restricted to eight characters. I wasn't sure what was going on; but, now I realize that I must have mistakenly installed DES on the box.) Thanks. Frank > -----Original Message----- > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav [SMTP:des@flood.ping.uio.no] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:05 AM > To: Rashid N. Achilov > Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Long username/password > > "Rashid N. Achilov" writes: > > I think, DES isn't default crypt to passwords. > > DES *is* the default if the DES libraries are installed, unless the > user in question already has an MD5 password (in which case the system > will keep using MD5 every time he/she changes his/her password) > > DES (the committer, not the library) > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message