Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:23:24 -0000 From: paul@originative.co.uk To: axl@iafrica.com, sobomax@altavista.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: WARNING: Today's current breaks passwords Message-ID: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FDD4@OCTOPUS>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:axl@iafrica.com] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 3:17 PM > To: Maxim Sobolev > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: WARNING: Today's current breaks passwords > > > > > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:51:40 +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Maybe your have switched between hashing modes (DES->MD5 or > MD5->DES)? > > Possibly that's what's happened, but it certainly isn't > something I did > deliberately. It happened to me too. Did a cvsupdate after the tag and Matt's code was commited, did a make world, built a new kernel, rebooted and couldn't log in! After changing root's password it went from being DES to SHA1 so I suspect it's failing to honour the existing hash algorithm and trying to use SHA1 regardless. Brandon looks like he's been around here recently, like yesterday when it happened :-). Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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