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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.kolumbus.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Migrating from DES to MD5 passwords Date: 3 Mar 1997 10:41:18 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5fe9se$rba$1@news.clinet.fi> References: <fred-2802970152280001@dcs68.dcs-chico.com> <5f6se2$llp$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi NNTP-Posting-User: mickey Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36462 Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr> wrote: >2.2 and up will understand both formats but the default is DES I think. You >should be able to change it in the source. If you do this, each time a >password is changed, it will use the default format. > >If you give crypt(3) a salt beginning with "$1$", it will use MD5 >passwords. Look into /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypt/ for details. does this mean that coz i want to run TACACS+ with our Cisco 2511 i need to upgrade my 2.1.7 server to 2.2 to be able to get it "right"? i'm using MD5 and would not feel too happy if i shoul duse DES... mickey