Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:48:33 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Carlos Mendes =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dumb question about DES/MD5 in /etc/master.passwd Message-ID: <44zlzxnrge.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <46E0A950.8010502@jonny.eng.br> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Jo=E3o?= Carlos Mendes =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs=22's?= message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 22\:28\:48 -0300") References: <46E0A950.8010502@jonny.eng.br>
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Jo=E3o Carlos Mendes Lu=EDs <jonny@jonny.eng.br> writes: > This question must be really dumb, but I cannot find its answer. > > In a somewhat recently updated RELENG_6 FreeBSD, whenever I run the > program /usr/bin/passwd to change an users password, it encrypts the > password using DES. I have already configured /etc/login.conf for > MD5, but it still goes with DES: > > *$ grep passwd /etc/login.conf > :passwd_format=3Dmd5:\ > # :passwd_format=3Ddes:\ > $* > > What could I be doing wrong? > > If that matters, this system has been receiving system and /etc > upgrades since Sep/2003. Maybe some old configuration has been left > around... I'm a little too lazy to confirm if this is still the case with the openpam libraries, but it used to be the case that the passwd_format variable was not consulted for changing passwords on existing accounts; the same format was always used. passwd_format would be obeyed if there were *no* password on the account (in particular, the first time a password was assigned).
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