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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!ns2.foothill.net!oronet!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.utelfla.com!hobbes.crc.com!usenet From: Dan Benjamin <dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding DES after the fact Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:14:14 -0500 Organization: Coleman Research Corporation Lines: 19 Message-ID: <33032FC6.444E@mail.hqs.crc.com> References: <5dpuo6$fnk@pelican.unf.edu> <3300D7CD.66FA@mail.hqs.crc.com> <5ds116$1v2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pelican.hqs.crc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35579 > 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) This will work very well. It doesn't "break" passwords, but using DES means changing the way passwords are encrypted and stored, doesn't it? If that's true, the new password de-encryption will be unable to match what the user types with what is stored in master.passwd. -- Dan Benjamin dpb@crc.com