Re: Password encoding

From: Todor Genov (ukj@unix.za.net)
Date: 09/26/02


Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:04:37 +0200
From: Todor Genov <ukj@unix.za.net>
To: Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>


> You're going to want to do 2 things. First, make sure that you have your
> passwd_format=md5 in your /etc/login.conf (be sure to run cap_mkdb
> /etc/login.conf after you do so).

FreeBSD has had support for blowfish passwords for quite some time now. Just
specify passwd_format=blf in login.conf.

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