Dumb question about DES/MD5 in /etc/master.passwd

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> João Carlos Mendes Luís <jonny at jonny.eng.br> writes:
>
>   
>>    This question must be really dumb, but I cannot find its answer.
>>
>>    In a somewhat recently updated RELENG_6 FreeBSD, whenever I run the
>> program /usr/bin/passwd to change an users password, it encrypts the
>> password using DES.  I have already configured /etc/login.conf for
>> MD5, but it still goes with DES:
>>
>> *$ grep passwd /etc/login.conf
>>        :passwd_format=md5:\
>> #       :passwd_format=des:\
>> $*
>>
>>    What could I be doing wrong?
>>
>>    If that matters, this system has been receiving system and /etc
>> upgrades since Sep/2003.  Maybe some old configuration has been left
>> around...
>>     
>
> I'm a little too lazy to confirm if this is still the case with the
> openpam libraries, but it used to be the case that the passwd_format
> variable was not consulted for changing passwords on existing
> accounts; the same format was always used.  passwd_format would be
> obeyed if there were *no* password on the account (in particular, the
> first time a password was assigned).
>   

That was not the case.  An account with MD5 password was turning into DES.

The answer has been given by the previous message, and it was really 
dumb as I supposed: I did not run cap_mkdb!  :-(

                                        Jonny

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João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny at jonny.eng.br