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

[Mel]

On Friday 07 September 2007 03:28:48 João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
>     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:\
> $*


After changing that, did you run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf?

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Mel