Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:09:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: MD5 passwords vs DES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009172309080.66732-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <14789.42660.401430.305445@vbook.express.ru>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote:
>
> I have a question:
>
> Do anybody have ideas to add 'default crypting mode' for utilities
> like passwd, adduser, etc ?
>
> I am not very happy to add new user with adduser, then to edit manualy
> /etc/passwd adding $1$xxx$xx to password, then lanch passwd to change
> password for user. In a reality passwd uses old password as salt for
> new password, but if there was no old password or it was '*' - new
> password is crypted with DES :(
Brian Feldman wrote code in -current which fixes this by using a login
capability to specify which format to use for new passwords.
I'm trying to get him to merge it back to -stable in time for
4.1.1. Brian, whats the latest?
Kris
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