> > I am running stable branch cvsupped Mon Oct 22 02:53:56 EDT 2001.
> > I added a user and noticed that it is not using the md5 password
> > format.
>
> The adduser perl script uses Perl's crypt() function, which is implemented
> via crypt(3).  Since the salt that is provided to the crypt() call doesn't
> explicitly specify which algorithm to use (man crypt(3) for details), the
> crypt() function call defaults to DES.
>
> If you use passwd() to change the user's password after creating the
> account, the new password will be md5, or whatever you've specified in
> /etc/login.conf.

Oops.  The correct place is /etc/auth.conf in 4.4-REL and later.

--
Matt Emmerton


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