Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:32:02 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Kris Yates <kris@2binteractive.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/login.conf password formatting Message-ID: <20030715173201.GB21668@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <3F1437D2.7090503@2binteractive.com> References: <3F1437D2.7090503@2binteractive.com>
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:20:18PM -0500, Kris Yates wrote:
> Please send replies directly to me as I do not have time to check the
> list as often as I would like..
>
> Currently, it appears that some passwords on my system are DES, most are
> MD5. I found the following below recently, a suggestion to switch to
> blowfish. I am down with that! If I change the following (as shown
> below) in /etc/login.conf, will the system still decrypt the old DES and
> MD5 entries, ie. nothing will break in this regard?
>
> :passwd_format=blf:\
Correct, but don't forget to rebuild the capability database afterwards
as mentioned at the top of /etc/login.conf.
Also, for completeness, you should also change the crypt_default line
in /etc/auth.conf to read:
crypt_default = blf md5 des
Ceri
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