Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:40:46 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from DES to MD5 Message-ID: <20010423114046.A57203@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010422163755.00ae60b0@mail.geektank.org>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:39:28PM -0700 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010422163755.00ae60b0@mail.geektank.org>
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:39:28PM -0700, Trevin Chow wrote: > I've done a bit of poking around and would like to know how to move from > DES passwords to MD5. Do I just have to change the symbolic links from > libcrypt* to libscrypt*? Currently they are pointing to the libdescrypt ones. If root sets the passwd for a users using passwd(1), any DES based password gets converted to a MD5 version under FreeBSD 4.2+ -- Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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