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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Crypt gives insane passwords !
Date: 24 May 1995 04:12:14 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <ortegaD8noEs.Apw@netcom.com>, John Ortega <ortega@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>have the same system, but the passwords didn't work. I had to use fixit
>mode on the install disks, and I finally got a working passwd file. But
>now the encrypted password are huge (something like:
>$567kd4#02-dls93$l2&32ls-\@123klsls;se).
You need to get the DES version of libcrypt from the FreeBSD site
(I assume you are a resident of the US or Canada). The default
FreeBSD distribution uses MD5 encryption, which produces the long
strings you see.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org