Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 17:07:56 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, "Peter Chiu" <pccb@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adduser not using md5 password format Message-ID: <014301c1707d$7a7eae70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <063187618.20011118160024@yahoo.com> <013701c1707a$b4d40780$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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> > I am running stable branch cvsupped Mon Oct 22 02:53:56 EDT 2001. > > I added a user and noticed that it is not using the md5 password > > format. > > The adduser perl script uses Perl's crypt() function, which is implemented > via crypt(3). Since the salt that is provided to the crypt() call doesn't > explicitly specify which algorithm to use (man crypt(3) for details), the > crypt() function call defaults to DES. > > If you use passwd() to change the user's password after creating the > account, the new password will be md5, or whatever you've specified in > /etc/login.conf. Oops. The correct place is /etc/auth.conf in 4.4-REL and later. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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