Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:39:03 +0200 From: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. Message-ID: <20001121143903.B14220@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210704230.88234-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:09:57AM -0500 References: <20001121135541.A14220@nevermind.kiev.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210704230.88234-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>
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Hello, Matt Heckaman! On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:09:57AM -0500, you wrote: > FreeBSD has actually defaulted to MD5 passwords for quite a long time to > those of us not within the US. However, installing the US crypto has > always forced the usage of DES passwords by default. In order to switch > your machine back to DES passwords from MD5 passwords, this is what you > need to do: > > [ commands done one line at a time for clear reading ] > > # cd /usr/lib > > # rm libcrypt.a > # rm libcrypt.so > # rm libcrypt.so.2 > # rm libcrypt_p.a > # ln -s libdescrypt.a libcrypt.a > # ln -s libdescrypt.so libcrypt.so > # ln -s libdescrypt.so.2 libcrypt.so.2 > # ln -s libdescrypt_p.a libcrypt_p.a > > That's it. Should you desire to switch BACK to MD5 passwords, just take > those above steps and do a s/libdescrypt/libscrypt/g on it. > > Hope this if of help to you all. And if I wanna manage both -- DES & MD5? For example I have about 200 users on one machine and I have no physical ability to make them change their passwords. It seems to me it worked fine somewhere between 3.4 and 4.0. -- Alexandr P. Kovalenko http://nevermind.kiev.ua/ NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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