"Christopher J. Ruwe" <[email protected]> writes: > For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has > been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the sense of > being more expensive to crack. > > The handbook describes the procedure used in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/crypt.html. > Allegedly, hashes which were hashed with one of the sha-functions begin > with the character $6$. > > Afer having changed my /etc/login.conf accordingly and having reset the > passwords, the given there is not md5 anymore (I have tried with md5), > but does not begin with the character $6$, but, as md5, with $1$, which > is supposed to be md5-hashed.
I'm not following. Are you saying that you are resetting the passwords after setting login.conf, but new passwords aren't being created with the new hash type? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
