Re: Installs 6.2

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro ds2 pg gda pl>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Speedracer wrote:

> My question is do I have to wipe and reload 6.2? or is there an easier way
> to go back to regular old fashioned crypt? 

 You may mix password types.  You may copy old passwords as is and only
modify /etc/pam.d/passwd (and files for other services that may ask for
password change, e.g. /etc/pam.d/login) so that it contains a line similar
to the following: 

password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so md5 shadow use_authtok nullok

instead of the default one.  This way new passwords will be generated
using md5 while old ones will still work.

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