Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:57:04 -0400 From: James <James_Bond_79@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: wrong crypt? - adduser problem Message-ID: <01042214570401.75074@Halstead007>
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I installed the RC4 iso image and had assumed that md5 was the password encryption default. However my girlfriend noticed by accident that passwords were being truncated at 8 characters. Sure enough my system has been using des for all user passwords (the root password was correct). The login.conf properly said I was to be using md5 passwords. This confused me for a moment then I realized that I had never used passwd to change the passwords of the users, I had kept what I gave them at adduser time. After using passwd on a user it sure enough used md5 to hash it. I then adduser'd another dummy user, and it used des. Using passwd as this new user caused md5 to be used as expected. So basically it seems that adduser is broken and using des passwords when creating new users. I have to go out, and will look into this further when I get back, but wanted to see if anybody else was having a problem like this. I also have no way to confirm if this is the case on -current. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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