From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 22 2: 6: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D645437B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAMA7Bq04212; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:07:11 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Byrnes Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. Message-ID: <20001122020711.B4078@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <20001121082750.A2922@citusc17.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@jeah.net on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:01:27PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:01:27PM -0600, Chris Byrnes wrote: > > No longer correct. You don't need to futz with libraries and symlinks > > any more, only change the value of the passwd_format login capability > > in /etc/login.conf. The default is MD5 passwords for new accounts. >=20 > Hrm -- I find it odd that half of my passwords were changed to MD5 and > half were left DES in the upgrade, then. Any reason for this? They literally could not have been changed in the upgrade - it is impossible to convert a password hash from one format to another. Perhaps the account passwords expired or something, and those accounts got new passwords. Kris --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjobms4ACgkQWry0BWjoQKVznQCcDfLU1gjmqRMVuM7SMLnEuOeX I4cAoIZISTMH7SjrX0fDULEgGSb7DBRD =EXJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message