From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 6:13:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.elehost.com (unknown [209.82.34.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8CE37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 06:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from GRAYWOLF.utoronto.ca (paul.elehost.com [207.245.11.22]) by server.elehost.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0CE0nf00247; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:00:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010112090739.022318e8@mailbox21.utcc.utoronto.ca> X-Sender: pc.mackenzie@mailbox21.utcc.utoronto.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:12:18 -0500 To: Lowell Gilbert From: Paul MacKenzie Subject: Switch from MD5 to DES on 4.2 FreeBSD: cannot set password cipher problem was the CAPS on MD5 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <441yu8q3j9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010111101725.034f46c8@mail.elehost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lowell, THANK-YOU!! Wow something so small as the case (for both MD5 and DES) made the difference to making the passwd give that very odd error. It is weird I did not see this mentioned in the docs / messages as I thought I followed them exactly. Must be my inexperience. :) Ah well, all is better now, and thanks again for your help :passwd_format=md5:\ (works) Cheers Paul At 08:54 AM 12/01/2001 -0500, you wrote: >pc.mackenzie@utoronto.ca (Paul MacKenzie) writes: > > > :passwd_format=MD5:\ > >I thought case was significant: shouldn't that be 'md5' instead of 'MD5'? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message