[plug] MD5 convert

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Christian wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:10:20PM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> > Err, no, I didn't want to convert hashes.  I want the system to check
> > existing MD5 hashed passwords with the MD5 algorithm.  The system was built
> > (without MD5 turned on) and the passwd+shadow file copied from backup.
> 
> You mean this doesn't happen automatically?  I would have thought the
> system would use the hash prefix to identify the algorithm to use --
> this is the way other systems do it and I always assumed Linux was the
> same. 

When you install you get asked if you want md5 support if you say "no" then
you don't get it.  Makes sense to me.

What Brian was asking was 
"Opps I said no!  How do I now change that to yes?"


Yours Tony.

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