Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:10:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> To: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MD5 --> DES ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005172309320.29933-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171935420.51856-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > So, several months ago I installed a new server for our lab, and as I > always do, I selected MD5 encryption for the passwords. Now that I'm in > the middle of setting up this machine as a NIS server for the various > other machines in the lab, I find that some other flavors of UNIX don't > like MD5. Oops. > > OK, so no problem, I can actually keep a separate master.passwd file for > the NIS accounts anyway, I just need to populate them with DES encrypted > passwords. > > So my question is, how do I create DES encrypted passwords from Perl? I > tried compiling a new perl binary pointing at libdescrypt, but somehow > crypt() still uses MD5. > > Ken Bolingbroke > hacker@bolingbroke.com > Your problem maybe that libcrypt was statically linked to the Perl binary, in that case you will have to recompile and link to the new libcrypt (libdescrypt) library. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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