On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be
> definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to
> be MD5 although I did not change anything
I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes -- if not someone
really should have put this in there.
Anyway, `man login.conf' and look for "passwd_format".
> Why? Has anything changed in FreeBSD in the meanwhile?
Yes. I'll let someome else give the why and how.
IMHO, there should be a "I want MD5 by default, but when changing a
password keep the hash format the same" option.
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-- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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