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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 22:12:05 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Manas Bhatt <bhatt_manas@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: passwd_format missing
Message-ID:  <20010529221205.A14026@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010530043324.63429.qmail@web10708.mail.yahoo.com>; from bhatt_manas@yahoo.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:33:24PM -0700
References:  <20010530043324.63429.qmail@web10708.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:33:24PM -0700, Manas Bhatt wrote:
> while going through the freebsd handbook, i found that
> one can set which type of encryption to use for new
> passwords by editing passwd_format variable in
> /etc/login.conf file.
> My question there is no passwd_format variable in my
> machine but it uses md5 to encrypt the new passwords
> (saw $ in the master.passwd file) but the libraries
> used are des. So without passwd_format variable, how
> is this happening?? Am i missing something which i
> should have known before asking this question
> thanks
> manas

Upgrade to 4.2 or later.

Kris

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