Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:02:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encryption Upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970813150207.28337B-100000@netrail.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813111456.1131H-100000@localhost>
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After looking at the libraries, I see that I'm moving from des to md5 - from libdescrypt to libscrypt's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Doug White wrote: :On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: : :> I just realized that most of these files are exactly the same. :> /usr/src/gnu doesn't even exist on the system to upgrade. Which of all :> these files are required to upgrade encryption, and which binaries need to :> be rebuilt (I assume perl, and crypt) : :Note my assumption here: : :> :I assume you want to migrate from MD5 to DES? : :In this case, you just need to replace the libraries and you should be set :to go. The DES libs understand MD5 so you shouldn't get stuck having to :reset all the passwords. : :Doug White | University of Oregon :Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant :http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major :Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo :
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