Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:37:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: vince@venus.GAIANET.NET (Vincent Poy) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE passwd issue Message-ID: <199910222337.TAA33777@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910211707150.5072-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> from Vincent Poy at "Oct 21, 1999 05:07:30 pm"
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Vincent Poy wrote, > Greetings, > > I installed a new machine on 3.3-RELEASE and copied the passwords > entries from another 3.2-RELEASE machine. I installed des on both > machines but for some odd reason, the following as a example will not be > recognized on the 3.3-RELEASE machine in /etc/master.passwd as a valid > password while it worked fine when I copied it from 3.1-RELEASE, -CURRENT > and even 2.2.x machines. > > vince:7G2DAweJ1/D8c:1001:0::0:0:Vincent Poy,,,:/home/vince:/usr/local/bin/tcsh OK, this is a typical DES 13 character password. > So I had to run passwd on each user to manually do the passwords > resulting that the passwords are DES as shown below: > > vince:$1$I1DcF26E$/qf90HbgJHM3vhqDbu1Pl/:1001:0::0:0:Vincent Poy,,,:/home/vince:/usr/local/bin/tcsh This is not a DES password. This is an MD5 password. > Seems that the DES package can't read MD5 passwords like it can in > older releases. Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? No, it looks to me like you have it backwards, that you really did not install DES on this system. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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