Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:20:54 +0100 From: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@luna.nl> To: phil grainger <phil@ozxpress.com.au> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mucked up an install... Message-ID: <19991111152054.C8293@supra.rotterdam.luna.net> In-Reply-To: <199911111413.AAA25378@gdr.dhis.org>; from phil grainger on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:13:20AM %2B1000 References: <199911111413.AAA25378@gdr.dhis.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:13:20AM +1000, phil grainger wrote:
> the root password is now about 3 times the length of
> every other user on the system ...
Does the hash start with $1$Of or something like that ?
My guess is that you (or some co-admin) has enabled MD5 hashing
on your machine, and that by changing passwords, you change from
DES to MD5 too.
-Steve
--
Stephan van Beerschoten Email: stephanb@luna.nl
Network Engineer Luna Internet Services www.luna.nl
PO Box 28013 3003 KA Rotterdam NL
PGPKey fingerprint = 45 57 97 61 B2 12 FB 4C 77 8D 35 29 C4 2A 2D 27
The perl script is correct if its get this job done before your boss fires you
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19991111152054.C8293>