Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:02:59 -0500 From: Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: does 4.2 password encryption change break `checkpasswd'? Message-ID: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019F18@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu>
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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
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