Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:17:17 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Encryption Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011292214430.90751-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20001129124020.A88921@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote: Dear Sir. Thank you for replying. I see, some problems occur during a period of time when using a system, so for that, in the past I was told to use DES encryption due it's mentioned to be a standard, but today's opinion seems to say the opposit. As I read about the difficulties in NIS/YP and the truth that passwords could exceed 8 charcters in length I swapped over to MD encryption again. Best wishes, many thanks, Oliver :>On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: :>> Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be :>> definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to :>> be MD5 although I did not change anything :> :>I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes -- if not someone :>really should have put this in there. :> :>Anyway, `man login.conf' and look for "passwd_format". :> :>> Why? Has anything changed in FreeBSD in the meanwhile? :> :>Yes. I'll let someome else give the why and how. :>IMHO, there should be a "I want MD5 by default, but when changing a :>password keep the hash format the same" option. :> :>-- :>-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) :> GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX :> - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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