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From: Wayne M Barnes <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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Subject: Re: password length
In-Reply-To: <16061.946465617@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Dec 29, 1999 01:06:57 pm"
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Dear Sheldon,

    You're right, the second URL below showed my problem.  I
have links to libdescrypt instead of to libscrypt.

    So how do I switch over to MD5-type password encryption?
If I just change the 3 links to libscrypt and make world, I suppose
that my password data base will be unbuttered toast, and all of
my users will have to re-enter their passwords, once I have bootstrapped
with boot -s.

    I bet my other programs that use passwords, such as atalkd and Samba,
will be messed up, also.
    For a new install, how could I have installed MD5 instead of DES?

I.e. where did I go wrong?

Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D.                        wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu

> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:20:28 CST, Wayne M Barnes wrote:
> 
> >     I just noticed that a couple of my 3.3 (or 3.4RC) systems are
> > not recognizing any more than 8 characters of my passwords.
> 
> I'll bet you're using DES instead of MD5. :-)
> 
> See the following references:
> 
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN634
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/security.html#CRYPT
> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
> 



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