3 Replies to “MD5 secrets”

1. Meh. It’s not such a big problem. It’s trivially easy to get both FreeBSD and DragonFly to use blowfish instead. I wish it were the default though, as it would save a very small amount of work on a fresh install.

   OT: Wishlist of minor things to see as defaults in DragonFly:

   * Blowfish passwords instead of MD5
   * Encrypted swap out of the box (AES?)
   * Sound drivers built into the kernel
   * Oh, and pkgsrc (stupid aging FreeBSD ports)

   That’s my rant for the day ;^)

2. I guess I should write how to do it…

   edit /etc/login.conf
   change passwd_format=md5
   to
   passwd_format=blf

   save the file, then do:

   cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

   Then edit /etc/auth.conf to contain the following:
   crypt_default = blf

3. Don’t forget to “renew” the passwords.
   Encrypted swap and encrypted home dirs would be great indeed.

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