Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:12:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solaris NIS client of FreeBSD server Message-ID: <20020809151215.G21206-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020809063258.GA86506@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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Matthew, That worked perfectly, thanks! Now it will be in the archives too - that definitely qualifies as useful information. Paul > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:16:27PM -0700, Paul English wrote: > > Is there any way I can direct FreeBSD to generate the "old style" > > passwords? > > In /etc/login.conf, change the default 'passwd_format' entry from > 'md5' to 'des', and rebuild the login.conf.db file: > > perl -pi.old -e 's/:passwd_format=md5:/:passwd_format=des:/;' \ > login.conf > cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf > > You'll have to get all your users to change passwords again if they've > got a new style MD5 password hash. > > > Or is there any way I can direct Solaris recognize the "new style" > > passwords? > > Upgrade to Solaris 9 which understands MD5 password hashes. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow > Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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