Hello, Matt Heckaman!
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:09:57AM -0500, you wrote:
> FreeBSD has actually defaulted to MD5 passwords for quite a long time to
> those of us not within the US. However, installing the US crypto has
> always forced the usage of DES passwords by default. In order to switch
> your machine back to DES passwords from MD5 passwords, this is what you
> need to do:
>
> [ commands done one line at a time for clear reading ]
>
> # cd /usr/lib
>
> # rm libcrypt.a
> # rm libcrypt.so
> # rm libcrypt.so.2
> # rm libcrypt_p.a
> # ln -s libdescrypt.a libcrypt.a
> # ln -s libdescrypt.so libcrypt.so
> # ln -s libdescrypt.so.2 libcrypt.so.2
> # ln -s libdescrypt_p.a libcrypt_p.a
>
> That's it. Should you desire to switch BACK to MD5 passwords, just take
> those above steps and do a s/libdescrypt/libscrypt/g on it.
>
> Hope this if of help to you all.
And if I wanna manage both -- DES & MD5? For example I have about 200 users on
one machine and I have no physical ability to make them change their passwords.
It seems to me it worked fine somewhere between 3.4 and 4.0.
--
Alexandr P. Kovalenko http://nevermind.kiev.ua/
NEVE-RIPE
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