Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:07:25 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES from source? Message-ID: <199904070907.RAA10768@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:51:26 %2B0200." <19990407105126.A6886@sanyusan.se>
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Anders Andersson wrote: > * Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@flood.ping.uio.no) [990403 17:33]: > > > Existing MD5 passwords will still work. New users will get DES > > passwords. > > Thanks, but how do I get all my "old" users to use DES crypted passwords? Unfortunately, passwd(1) will helpfully maintain the same encryption method as was used before. ie: if a user has a MD5 passwd, the new one will also be MD5, regardless of the default. What I've wanted to do for some time is have a passwd re-coder launched from things like login etc when the plaintext password is available. I have wanted to be able to enable a transition to a new method over time. Of course, passwd(1) should ideally be able to be told to ignore the old method too - it looks like /etc/auth.conf is in the beginnings of this. (note that I'm not advocating changing the present system, just having the ability to do the two things above). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting "No coffee, No workee!" :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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