From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 19: 5:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 19:05:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu (resnet.resnet.uconn.edu [137.99.156.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABBC37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:02:59 -0500 Message-ID: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019F18@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> From: Peter Lai To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: does 4.2 password encryption change break `checkpasswd'? Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:02:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi i remember there being some discussion when FreeBSD 4.2 was released that it changed the /etc/passwd encryption from DES to MD5 or vice versa or something... I am trying to use the `checkpasswd' port so I can use qmail-pop3d. Having run through some pretty basic diagnostics it appears that checkpasswd fails to authenticate a valid user found in /etc/passwd. (namely running `qmail-popup' to call `checkpasswd' and then after `checkpasswd' authenticates, it calls `pwd' so it lists the directory). this process fails the authentication step which means that `checkpasswd' is failing Is this because of the password scheme change from 4.1 to 4.2 or something else? everything has been installed by default from ports. the smtp and local parts of qmail works flawlessly and delivers stuff straight to Maildir. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message