From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 23:26:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17930 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA17925 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA23883; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:27:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure distribution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote: > > > I accidentally supped the -current secure distribution on one of > > our machines and the system is now running using DES encryption. Is > > there anyway to go back to the MD5 distribution since I think all the > > passwords are now DES... > > I believe -current has a "amorphous" crypt library so it should be able to > deal with the passwords either way. > > Just to be sure, make sure the console is "insecure" before you reboot > next time. Hmmm, the thing is I did this awhile back and didn't notice it until now so maybe secure doesn't hurt but MD5 seems harder for people to use crack on... Vince