> > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
