Re: Long username/password

Kris Kennaway (krishub.freebsd.org)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:27:06 -0700 (PDT)

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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jon Parise wrote:

> > DES *is* the default if the DES libraries are installed, unless the
> > user in question already has an MD5 password (in which case the system
> > will keep using MD5 every time he/she changes his/her password)
>
> If the DES libraries are already installed on a system, is there a
> way to still use MD5 passwords by default?

No. Unless you make a trivial change to passwd(1). Adding a command-line
switch to do this would probably be a welcome feature.

Kris

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