Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:14:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwords: switching to DES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201213410.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199904152318.TAA99209@misha.cisco.com>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > To be able to share accounts with a Sun machine, I need to tell the > users to recreate their password, so that they are in the DES form. > > The problem is, I don't know what to tell them. The NIS server is a > FreeBSD-3.1-STABLE. If I create a new account there, the password is > in DES form. But if I try to modify the existing user's password, it > is created in MD5 form. Using passwd(8) maintains the crypt algorithm? I don't recall seeing that on my last perusal through the passwd(8) source. Check that libscrypt is properly symlinked. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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