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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding DES after the fact Date: 22 Feb 1997 22:59:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5entpf$tp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5dpuo6$fnk@pelican.unf.edu> <3300D7CD.66FA@mail.hqs.crc.com> <5ds116$1v2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <33032FC6.444E@mail.hqs.crc.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36027 Dan Benjamin <dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com> wrote: > 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. Starting with FreeBSD 2.1.5, the DES crypt(3) function is ``dual personality'', i.e. it can automagically decide whether being faced with an MD5 or DES password, and take the appropriate action. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)