Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:15:25 -0800 From: GVB <gvb@tns.net> To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compat_2_2 Message-ID: <4.1.19990303141407.00bd85d0@abused.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903031541170.14899-100000@dorm-36314.rh.uh. edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9903031630450.14244-100000@mercury.cis.yale.edu>
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At 03:47 PM 3/3/99 -0600, you wrote: >On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Dennis Ostrovsky wrote: > >> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, GVB wrote: >> >> > >> > One is the fact that when I go to /usr/src and do a make install compat_2_2 >> > it fails on all three machines in three different places. Someone had >> >> Why did you do that? The correct way to go from 2.2.8 to 3.1 is "make >> upgrade". You don't need to make compat_2_2, that's taken care of for you >> during the upgrade. >> >> > The second problem is when I went from 2.2.8 -> 3.1 as soon I was done with >> > the upgrade and rebooted the machine with a new kernel my old master.passwd >> > files did NOT work. It seems that the default encryption method has >> > changed? Because on a 3.0 -> 3.1 upgrade the passwd files worked fine.. >> >> Not sure why that is, I didn't experience this. Were you using kerberos or >> something with 2.2.8? >> >> Dennis >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University >> >> E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> >At some poi9nt in time, FreeBSD's crypt() changed the war it encodes >passwords. IIRC, passwords should now look something like $1$ followed by >the salt and the actual encrypted password. Take a look at the database >and make sure the envrypted passwords are the correct format. I had >problems following my upgrade wherby some a.out executables that had >passwords suddenly wanted to start reading the old password format. If >you didn't upgrade properly I suppose it could also be that your login >program is using the older form of crypt(), which I seem to remember >seeing is still available. > >Jonathan Fosburgh >Geotechnician >Snyder Oil Corporation >Houston, TX > >Home Page: >http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 >Manager, FreeBSD Webring: >http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html >ICQ: 32742908 >AIM: Namthorien > Ok, so my upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.1 upgraded the crypt() stuff, but now, because of this upgrade, none of my old master.passwd files work.. and on systems with thousands of users I cant sit here and change every users password.. there has got to be a way to make it backwards compatible, or convert old to new.. any ideas? GVB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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