Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > how do you convert a passwd/shadow file to md5 passwords? > > say i've got a shadow file full of old-style crypted passwords, how do i > convert them all to md5crypt (without having to know what the plaintext > password is)? I dont think that is poss

Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5 > passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that > recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly. Programs that > do

Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Scott Ellis
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't > recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For > example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated. > > Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6

Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really > prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my > passwords. libc6 supports MD5 passwords (almost) transparently. There may be some stupid programs that do thi

Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6

1998-01-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated. Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really prefer a password system with mor