Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:52:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jcptch@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (Jon Parise) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password Message-ID: <199910051852.LAA73007@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19991005103919.A17991@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> from Jon Parise at "Oct 5, 1999 10:39:19 am"
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Jon Parise writes: > > 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? I've complained about this before, and I'll do it again :-) The following two things are NOT the same thing: 1. I want and am allowed to install DES on my system 2. I want DES encrypted passwords The FreeBSD installer seems to not know the difference (the last time I checked, anyway). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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