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Date:      Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:20:13 -0500
From:      "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To:        "Kiril Mitev" <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: libcrypt links changed, cannot login anymore...
Message-ID:  <00a701bec9b1$93f73a40$8dfee0d1@westbend.net>
References:  <199907081311.OAA05851@ideaglobal.com>

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From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
> I've changed the libcrypt* links from libdescrypt to libscrypt, and
> thereby killed completely everybody's logins (read: cannot login
> anymore).
>
> I do recall that it was supposed to be OK to do this, or was my
recollection
> erm, wrong ?
>
your recollection is wrong.

It's okay to change the links from libscrypt to libdescrypt for libcrypt*,
as the libdescrypt library can encode/decode DES and pass MD5 passwords to
libscrypt.

Where as the libscrypt can only encode/decode MD5 passwords.

Since, you originally used the libdescrypt, all the passwords were encrypted
with DES encryption.

Scot



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