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From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding DES after the fact
Date: 12 Feb 1997 09:03:34 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Dan Benjamin (dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com) wrote:
: Cliff Addy wrote:
: > 
: > I need to add DES support to a system that has been up for about a year.  I've
: > had conflicting opinions on whether this will break current passwords, if all
: > executable must be recompiled, etc.  Is there anyone who has actually *done*
: > this who can relate their experience?
: 
: You do not need to recompile, but changing to DES will break all of your
: passwords.
: 
: The easiest way would be to install DES from sysinstall - just do a
: custom install, choose DES, and away you go.  You could alternatively
: install/compile the source yourself.
: 
: Above all, make sure root password is set to nul before you make the
: change (provided noone can access the machine during that time - hence
: boot to single user first).
: 
: You will probably need to set the user passwords to null before the
: change.
: -- 
: 
: Dan Benjamin
: dpb@crc.com

Ummm...

Are you sure that it will break passwords ?
The other way around would do so...

BTW, it seems to me, that all what is necessary,
is just install three libraries, and change links to them...:

lrwxr-xr-x   1 bin   bin        13 Feb  6 03:14 libcrypt.a@ -> libdescrypt.a
lrwxr-xr-x   1 bin   bin        18 Feb  6 03:14 libcrypt.so.2.0@ -> libdescrypt.
so.2.0
lrwxr-xr-x   1 bin   bin        15 Feb  6 03:14 libcrypt_p.a@ -> libdescrypt_p.a

(in /usr/lib)

IgoR
aka StR