Lowell Gilbert wrote:
João Carlos Mendes Luís <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This question must be really dumb, but I cannot find its answer.
In a somewhat recently updated RELENG_6 FreeBSD, whenever I run the
program /usr/bin/passwd to change an users password, it encrypts the
password using DES. I have already configured /etc/login.conf for
MD5, but it still goes with DES:
*$ grep passwd /etc/login.conf
:passwd_format=md5:\
# :passwd_format=des:\
$*
What could I be doing wrong?
If that matters, this system has been receiving system and /etc
upgrades since Sep/2003. Maybe some old configuration has been left
around...
I'm a little too lazy to confirm if this is still the case with the
openpam libraries, but it used to be the case that the passwd_format
variable was not consulted for changing passwords on existing
accounts; the same format was always used. passwd_format would be
obeyed if there were *no* password on the account (in particular, the
first time a password was assigned).
That was not the case. An account with MD5 password was turning into DES.
The answer has been given by the previous message, and it was really
dumb as I supposed: I did not run cap_mkdb! :-(
Jonny
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João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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