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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:04:38 +1030
From:      Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au>
To:        Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: converting passwords to blowfish
Message-ID:  <20021118043438.GA1819@adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20021118035059.59932.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021118035059.59932.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:50:59PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
> 
> i've been running through some tutorials on how to convert the passwords
> from md5 to blowfish.  
> 
> there's mention of the following to actually do the conversion:
> 
> cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
> 
> however, i don't see the conversion.  the tutorial mentions that the
> password should start with $2$, but they still begin with $1$
> 
> how do i correct this?

only new passwords will be encrypted in blowfish.  there is no way
to translate them from one to the other, short of requiring your
users to re-enter them.

-tim

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