Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:52:29 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Chris Waltham" <chris@insurancemyway.com.au>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problem with DES/MD5 Message-ID: <000d01c08c23$ecc5bda0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010201114007.01890ee8@mail.insurancemyway.com.au>
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Uh, Chris, have you tried
man login.conf
On the 4.2 system? Here's the snippit:
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AUTHENTICATION
Name Type Notes Description
minpasswordlen number 6 The minimum length a local
password
may be.
passwd_format string md5 The encryption format that new or
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
changed passwords will use.
Valid
values include "md5" and "des".
NIS clients using a non-FreeBSD
NIS
server should probably use "des".
mixpasswordcase bool true Whether p
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Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Waltham
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 7:43 PM
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Problem with DES/MD5
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble with NIS under FreeBSD - I have one machine
> that's 4.1-REL and the other is 4.2. It would seem that one of the
> machines (the 4.1 box) has MD5 installed as the standard crypto library,
> whilst the 4.2 machine is using DES.
>
> I've looked through the handbook regarding this, and it says that the
> passwd format to use is defined in /etc/login.conf
> (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/crypt.html). Similarly, man login.conf
> didn't help me any; and the NIS page in the handbook doesn't have any
> solutions for library incompatibilities (though they acknowledge the
> existence of them).
>
> login.conf doesn't contain any references to a crypt method of any sort,
> so I presume this is just out of date and needs changing. Where else could
> I look? We'd rather use MD5 than DES, is there some way we can "uninstall"
> the DES libs from the 4.2 box?
>
> thanks a bunch,
>
>
> chris
>
>
>
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