Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:13:51 +0200 From: Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES from source? Message-ID: <19990407111350.A7171@sanyusan.se> In-Reply-To: <199904070907.RAA10768@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Ons, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:07:25pm %2B0800 References: <19990407105126.A6886@sanyusan.se> <199904070907.RAA10768@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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* Peter Wemm (peter@netplex.com.au) [990407 11:07]: > > Unfortunately, passwd(1) will helpfully maintain the same encryption > method as was used before. ie: if a user has a MD5 passwd, the new one > will also be MD5, regardless of the default. > > What I've wanted to do for some time is have a passwd re-coder launched > from things like login etc when the plaintext password is available. I > have wanted to be able to enable a transition to a new method over time. > > Of course, passwd(1) should ideally be able to be told to ignore the old > method too - it looks like /etc/auth.conf is in the beginnings of this. > > (note that I'm not advocating changing the present system, just having the > ability to do the two things above). > > Cheers, > -Peter That sounds great Peter! Please let me know if you want me to test it for you. Anders -- -------------------------------------------------------- Anders Andersson anders@sanyusan.se Sanyusan International AB http://www.sanyusan.se/ Västgötagatan 11 Tel: +46-(0)31-168730 411 39 Gothenburg, SWEDEN Fax: +46-(0)31-209361 -------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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