From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 14 3:43:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vr.IN-Berlin.DE (gnu.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B8415290 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 03:43:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from server.nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley@servicia.in-berlin.de) Received: from uriela.in-berlin.de (IDENT:root@servicia.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.145]) by mail.vr.IN-Berlin.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17041 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:43:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from server.nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley@servicia.in-berlin.de) Received: by uriela.in-berlin.de (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1) id m11mzZN-000VRMC; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:19:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ripley@localhost) by server.nostromo.in-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA58491 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:52:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ripley) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:52:46 +0100 From: "H. Eckert" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of Passwords/etc in FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <19991114015245.A58093@server.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <19991112002328.B81323@server.nostromo.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:15:09PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoting Kris Kennaway (kris@hub.freebsd.org): > Probably you switched from DES to MD5 passwords when you upgraded. I didn't upgrade; it was a completely fresh installation. Apparently MD5 hashes are the default method with 3.x > Having said that, your netatalk example shows there's at least some need > for it - it would be a fairly simple matter to copy the minpasswordlen > code. If you submit the patch I'll try and get it committed. Sorry, that's completely out of scope for me. Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, http://www.in-berlin.de/User/nostromo/ ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message