Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:16:13 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: Colin Legendre <sudz@ns3g.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <20010223201613.A359@junior.kasby> In-Reply-To: <KGEOJAKEENHJJGNECGDJCEELCDAA.sudz@ns3g.com>; from sudz@ns3g.com on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:33:05AM -0500 References: <KGEOJAKEENHJJGNECGDJCEELCDAA.sudz@ns3g.com>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:33:05AM -0500, Colin Legendre wrote: > I have noticed that adduser crypts the password using DES and not MD5. > Anyway to change this. >=20 > Colin Legendre CCNA, MCP > Infrastructure Management Specialist > Q9 Networks Inc. > sudz@ns3g.com >=20 >=20 > end of the original message As explained in section 8.4 of the handbook: If you have installed the DES-capable crypt library libdescrypt (e.g. by installing the "crypto" distribution), then which password format will be used for new passwords is controlled by the ``passwd_format'' login capability in /etc/login.conf, which takes values of either ``des'' or ``md5''. See the login.conf(5) manpage for more information about login capabilities. This don't work in a 3.x-STABLE system. You can force MD5 passwords by putting $1$ in the second field of /etc/master.passwd (or something similar= ). Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lrb9fsM3XxZOsXsRAqAaAJ47emfbbGAi9U5d8iy+JCFSOMmUWwCghXBy MJrSLjLkRfdzFdj5lK4Y3o0= =PMWF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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