Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:23:08 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption Message-ID: <16149.893060588@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:12:49 %2B0200." <199804200812.KAA09640@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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Good question - I have no idea. :-( > On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > How can one control which kind of encryption is to be used by the > > > system for password encryption ? For example I want to use only MD5 > > > > I've often wondered that myself and I'll be interested to hear the > > answer. :) I suspect the answer is, however, "you can't do that" > > and that we need some sort of /etc/passwd.conf (ducks :-). > > Yonks ago, you made Brandon Gillespie into a committer. He was working > on extending crypt to do all sorts of cute things (Thus absolving me > of that responsibility). > > What happened to him? I may be wrong, but I have yet to see a single > commit from him. > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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