Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 11:14:45 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> To: SACBBX <rdugaue@netcom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! PWs and other woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950308111204.23976A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9503072245.A1125-0100000@netcom11>
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On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, SACBBX wrote: > Taking a suggestion that I possibly didn't have securedist properly > installed on the main machine, I copied /etc to a backup dir and > re-installed bin, then secure. Copied the /etc backup back. Whamo, now my > main machine's passwords are invalid! I have backups of master.passwd, > but they do no good. It's almost as if the machines are using entirely > different encryption algorythms. What can I do? How do I save from having > all my users redo their passwds??? This is a big problem. 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. What verison of FreeBSD? Tom
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