From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 5 7:43: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from filer4.isc.rit.edu (filer4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F54314A19 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcptch@osfmail.isc.rit.edu) Received: from grace ("port 4918"@[129.21.3.102]) by osfmail.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #21576) with SMTP id <0FJ400L8LWPKPJ@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:39:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by grace (5.65v4.0/1.1.19.2/21Sep98-0910AM) id AA18489; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:39:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:39:19 -0400 From: Jon Parise Subject: Re: Long username/password In-reply-to: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 07:05:05AM +0200 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-followup-to: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <19991005103919.A17991@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i X-Operating-System: OSF1 V4.0 (alpha) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 07:05:05AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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) If the DES libraries are already installed on a system, is there a way to still use MD5 passwords by default? -- Jon Parise (parise@pobox.com) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.pobox.com/~parise/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message