Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

["Alexander S. Usov" <A.S.Usov@xxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 October 2005 11:43, meister@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Am Freitag 21 Oktober 2005 02:30 schrieb "Alexander S. Usov"
>
> <A.S.Usov@xxxxxx>:
> > > ... If your old passwords use another encryption,
> > > you must change the method on 10.0 via YaST. This only works if you
> > > use "local(/etc/passwd)" for authentification.
> >
> > JFYI -- passwords encrypted with different algorithms are different
> > enough to figure out the algorithm used, and to process it correctly.
> > Right now I have blowfish selected as a default, but still have a few
> > users with md5-encrypted passwords.
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> thanks for that information. Is this a new feature? As far as I
> remember, in older SuSE versions all passwords must have the same
> encryption. Or am I wrong?

No idea.
I am a new suse user, however I am very surprized if it didn't really worked
before. In the case of FreeBSD it worked this way for ages.

-- 
Best regards,
  Alexander.