More on fP 6.0 features

[Fairlight]

Simon--er, no...it was Bill Vermillion--said:
> On Thu, Oct 28 13:06 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
> Fairlight sent this to stdout: 
> 
> > Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Vermillion done said:
> > > 
> > > AFIK only DES, MD5 and Blowfish are in the password files
> > > in BSD.   A definition of Extended DES fails to come to mind
> > > at the moment.
> 
> > On a FBSD 4.7 system on which I read the docs, man passwd
> > documented Extended DES, which uses _ as the leading character
> > before the salt.
> 
> Hm. It's not in the current 4.10 doc under either man 1 passwd
> or man 5 passwd.
> 
> Double hm.
> 
> The login.conf file shows that only three types of password
> formats are used there.  The keywords being 'des' 'md5' or 'blf'.

I looked, and it took me forever to find it again too. man 3 crypt.  It's
all there--documentation of all three formats.  I referenced it when
writing something a few weeks back.  I just don't know if the password
system itself honours it, even though the function does.  I drew the
inference that it -should-, but that may be contraindicated by man
login.conf.

You tell me.  But it -does- exist as an encryption method on FBSD.  Whether
or not it can be used in the password system is questionable.  Test it and
let me know...I don't dare putz with this FBSD box I have access to.  :)

mark->
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