From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 21:34:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA07246 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:34:49 -0800 Received: from netcom10.netcom.com (rdugaue@netcom10.netcom.com [192.100.81.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA07240 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:34:48 -0800 Received: by netcom10.netcom.com (8.6.10/Netcom) id VAA02688; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:33:34 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:33:33 -0800 (PST) From: SACBBX Subject: Re: Help! PWs and other woes To: Tom Samplonius cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Did you have securedist installed previously? After installing > securedist, passwords will be encoded with DES, otherwise they will use > MD5. MD5 and DES are completely incompatible. So if your passwords were > MD5 encoded, installing securedist would cause serious problems. You hit it on the head. This is exactly what happened. I thought for sure securedist was installed after I upgraded to FreeBSD. I reinstalled a clean BSD system on a different machine, but left securedist out. copied master.passwd from the non-working system to the different machine and all the pws worked! Now how the heck can I convert the MD5 stuff to DES? I thought I was on DES to begin with. :(