Encrypted Password Portability Between releases

[James Moser]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for your reply but I found the problem.  It was in the 
programming and not the encryption...


Mark Tinguely wrote:

>  James Moser <james at ytjameslee.com> writes:
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>>  ... If I encrypt on a 4.7 box will it work on a 4.8
>>system, just not the other way around?
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>what is the entry in the "crypt_default" two OSes /etc/auth.conf files?
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>I suspect the FreeBSD 4.8 is defaulting to MD5 encyption and the
>FreeBSD 4.7 is knowledgable about DES encyption. MD5 passwords are
>obvious because they start with "$1$" and they are longer than
>DES encrypted passwords.
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>Sounds like you are re-implementing YP/NIS (see: man 8 yp).
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>--Mark Tinguely
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