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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:49:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: make world failed in -current 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960220214859.246r-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV>
In-Reply-To: <199602210246.EAA14162@grumble.grondar.za>

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On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Mark Murray wrote:

> -Vince- wrote:
> > > libdescrypt lives in src/secure/lib/libdescrypt. Do you have any
> > > references to *SECURE* or *CRYPT* in /etc/make.conf, or do you have
> > > a corrupt secure/ or eBones/?
> > 
> > 	I don't have a /usr/src/secure directory but I did notice that
> > /usr/libcrypt.so.2.0 is a symlink to libdescrypt.so.2.0 so is there 
> > anyway to convert the password files from DES to MD5?  
> 
> Sounds like thing have got royally screwed up. If your passwords
> (in master.password) are in DES format (ie do not begin with "$1$")
> then you are hosed without DES.
> 
> There is no known way to translate or reverse engineer crypted
> passwords.
> 
> I recommend installing the secure/ distribution if your passwords are
> DES encrypted.

	Yep, they are DES encrypted.  I don't know how I got the secure 
distribution on my machine in the first place...

Cheers,
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