From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 26 16:24:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26031 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 16:24:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from io.jovian.net (root@io.jovian.net [208.220.134.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25997 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 16:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tpm@jovian.net) Received: from io.jovian.net (tpm@io.jovian.net [208.220.134.15]) by io.jovian.net (8.8.8/jovian-custom_v1.1) with SMTP id TAA08358; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:22:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:22:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Mullaney To: Stuart Krivis cc: Thomas Mullaney , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick Questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It does thank you! I just finished an install of the complete OS including the ports from 2.2.6, but we still dont have access to apache, a bunch of shells, utilities etc. What do we need to do. I tried tell the install pgm to install all packages, but it takes HOURS and then fills up the disk space. I can see how FreeBSD blows the doors off of BSDi and Linux, but the install pgm takes some explaining. Thanks for any help offered! BTW: if you need to reach me my phone (toll free) is 888-568-4261 -- Tom Mullaney Jovian Networks, LLC nic: TM6112 Townsend, MA 01469-1182 icq: 4139015 (978) 597.0200 aim: tpmullaney http://www.jovian.net/~tpm -- Unix, networking, administration, consulting, programming, Internet services On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: > Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:58:15 -0400 (EDT) > From: Stuart Krivis > To: Thomas Mullaney > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Quick Questions > > On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Thomas Mullaney wrote: > > > 1) When doing an initial install it asks me what security services I > > want, DES, KERBEROS, and the sources for both. I dont want to run > > kerberos, but was does running the DES allow me? > > DES is simply another method of encryption. It is widely used, but there > are some issues surrounding its possible export from the US. (It is > against the law to export it if I am recalling correctly.) > > Most unix systems use "triple-DES" to encode passwords. You take the > plaintext password and run it through DES encryption 3 times. The result > is stored in the password file (or shadow). > > The plaintext passwords are never stored on the system. > > When you login, the password you enter is run through the DES encryption 3 > times and the result compared to the stored string in the password file. > If they match, you are authenticated and logged in. > > FreeBSD also includes an alternative to DES called MD5. It works as well > or better, judging by what I've read. If you don't install DES, you get > MD5. > > The only problem with this is that your BSDI machines probably use DES. So > you may need to use DES with FreeBSD so that you can migrate your users > over easily. Using DES will let you simply take the encrypted passwords > off BSDI and plug them into the appropriate field in the passwd file on > the FreeBSD machines. > > I hope this helps. > > -- > > Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message