Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com> To: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@metrics.com> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 and DES Message-ID: <20011012101215.J85958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011012100315.A85958-100000@localhost>
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, David Kirchner wrote: > This would be a hack, but you could leave your MD5 libraries where they > are and then create the DES crypt manually (either by using 'htpasswd' or > crypt() itself) and then insert it in to your password file via vipw. > FreeBSD's crypt, as I understand it, automatically recognizes MD5 and DES > crypts. Another hack solution would be to leave your user as-is, with the MD5 password, and then create another user only for Frontpage that shares tomh's UID and GID, but has a DES crypted password. This To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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