From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 13: 9:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E692411704 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54]) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 10FP4G-0001xD-00; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:08:36 -0600 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:08:01 -0600 From: Guy Helmer To: "Eric D. Fehr" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES support in passwd In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990223150548.007e0e30@proteus.idirect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Eric D. Fehr wrote: > Further to my previous question, I have done some digging, and it looks as > though despite the fact that DES support has been installed, the passwd > file is defaulting to different encryption, as the crypted password field > is 32 bytes, where the DES field was 13. What do your /usr/lib/libcrypt* links point to? They should point to /usr/lib/libdescrypt* to make DES passwords the default. If this system has been upgraded, do an "ldd /usr/bin/passwd" to verify that /usr/bin/passwd is using libraries from /usr/lib/, not /usr/lib/aout. > Is there a configuration file that I need to tweak somewhere to enable DES > support? I noted auth.conf, but the lack of documentation for it is > somewhat disturbing, if it has been implemented. Comments? There shouldn't be. I believe /etc/auth.conf configures the use of Kerberos for /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/su. /etc/pam.conf, a new configuration file (that should subsume /etc/auth.conf someday), configures which PAM modules are used for authentication, but that shouldn't affect /usr/bin/passwd. Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message