On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
Dear Sir.
Thank you for replying. I see, some problems occur during
a period of time when using a system, so for that, in the past
I was told to use DES encryption due it's mentioned to be a standard,
but today's opinion seems to say the opposit. As I read about the difficulties in
NIS/YP and the truth that passwords could exceed 8 charcters in length
I swapped over to MD encryption again.
Best wishes, many thanks,
Oliver
:>On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
:>> Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be
:>> definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to
:>> be MD5 although I did not change anything
:>
:>I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes -- if not someone
:>really should have put this in there.
:>
:>Anyway, `man login.conf' and look for "passwd_format".
:>
:>> Why? Has anything changed in FreeBSD in the meanwhile?
:>
:>Yes. I'll let someome else give the why and how.
:>IMHO, there should be a "I want MD5 by default, but when changing a
:>password keep the hash format the same" option.
:>
:>--
:>-- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
:> GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
:>
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MfG
O. Hartmann
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