From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 5:10:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC8337B406 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15oONU-0007kN-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:10:24 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:10:24 +0100 From: Ceri To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shadow passwords Message-ID: <20011002131024.C5144@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20011001232941.5db52eb7.nmace85@yahoo.com> <20011002153410.A92785@jonc.itouch> <20011002000339.3417c5d7.nmace85@yahoo.com> <20011002010738.J304@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011002010738.J304@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:07:38AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:07:38AM -0700, Crist J. Clark said: > > The limitation of DES is the eight-character limit. If you are using > eight characters or less, there is really no difference whether you > use DES or MD5. The methodology to crack either would be identical and > the differences in computation time would not really be important. Note that Blowfish is also available (although I have no idea when it became so). > > also i read in the handbook how you can tell...the MD5 entries have a > > $1$ in them...my root passwd has it but my user account doesn't...whats > > up with that? > > I recall that there once was a bug that caused this (was it never > fixed?), but it can also result from pilot error. Change your user password with passwd, and it'll get updated. Ceri -- "Ummm, excuse me. I think the network's down...?" "A communications disruption can only mean one thing... Invasion." --Lee Maguire, SDM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message