Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:37:44 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Andrey Lakhno" <land@dnepr.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to enable MD5 passwd encryption ? Message-ID: <005801c0107f$ccf3e1c0$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008272346270.24757-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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From: "Trond Endrestøl" <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> > > How can I set default encryption to MD5 for passwords in master.passwd ? > > Now all users I created have DES encrypted passwords. > > Change the libcrypt* symlinks in /usr/lib to their libscrypt* > counterparts and reassign the passwords. > > You may need to enter single user mode and the return to multi user > mode to make sure that the authentication subsystem uses the correct > password scheme. > No need to enter single user mode after changing those links. But make sure you reset root's password as well as any user in the wheel group. As this disables all DES passwords. Otherwise, you will be unable to log into the system when running multi user. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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