[plug] MD5 convert

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Brian Tombleson wrote:

> Sorry to bother, but can anyone tell me how to tell a Debian Potato system
> to lookup passwords (records already existing in /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow) with MD5 when the system was installed without choosing "Use
> MD5 Passwords" ?

dpkg-reconfigure passwd

Will ask you if you want MD5 passwords and/or shadow support.  However this 
will NOT convert passwords to md5 hashes.  The only way to do that is make 
md5 the default and then forece each user to change his/her password.

HTH

Yours Tony.

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