From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 12:03:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20813 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20805 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA28819; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:02:27 GMT Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:02:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encryption Upgrade In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 :