This effectively changes the non-DES password algoritm.
If you have the "securedist" installed you will have no problems with this.
(Though you might want to consider using this password-encryption instead
of the DES-based if your system is likely to be hacked)
If you are running a -current system without the "securedist" installed:
YOU WILL NEED TO CHANGE ALL PASSWORDS !! There is no backwards mode.
Suggested procedure is:
Update your sources
cd /usr/src/lib/libcrypt
make clean
make all
make install
passwd root
<set roots new password>
change password for any other users on the system.
This algorithm is expected to be much better than the traditional DES-
based algorithm. It uses the MD5 algorithm at what it is best at, as
opposed to the DES algorithm at something it isn't good at at all. The
algorithm is designed such that it should very hard to shortcut the
calculations needed to build a dictionary, and to make partial knowledge
(Hmm, his password starts with a 'P'...) useless. Of course if somebody
breaks the MD5 algorithm this looses too.
The salt is 48 bits (8 char @ base64).
The encrypted password is 128 bits.
And I am positively delighted to say that it takes 34 msec to crypt() a
password on a Pentium/60Mhz, so building a dictionary is not really an
option for hackers at the moment.
Given the right circumstances, a call to kvm_open can result in a core
dump.
The diff belows fixes this (note that this change is already in the
NetBSD code). Could somebody apply this?
Gary J.
Submitted by: gj
From: Chris Torek <torek@bsdi.com>
Here is a semi-official patch (apply to /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/fseek.c,
rebuild libc, install). The current code fails when the seek:
- is optimized, and
- is to just past the end of the block currently in the buffer, and
- is followed by another seek with no intervening read operation, and
- the destination of subsequent seek is within the block left in the
buffer (seeking to the beginning of a block does not force a read,
so the buffer still contains the previous block)
so it is indeed rather obscure.
I may have a different `final' fix, as this one `loses' the buffer
contents on a seek that goes just past the end of the current block.
[Footnote: seeks are optimized only on read-only opens of regular
files that are buffered by the file's optimal I/O size. This is
what you get with fopen(path, "r") and no call to setvbuf().]
Obtained from: [ BSDI mailing list ]
I know that many of these entries are bogus and need to be revisited,
but let's get the tree working again for now and then do a pass through
looking at all the __FreeBSD__ entries, shall we?
While trying to figure out why rlogind wasn't working right for root,
I noticed that man wouldn't come back with a man page for iruserok, but
it would for ruserok. Checking the lib/net directory's Makefile.inc
file shows that the link to the rcmd man page just isn't getting
created.
>How-To-Repeat:
Do a 'man iruserok' and notihing will come back, where a 'man ruserok'
will.
Submitted by: Brian Moore <ziff@houdini.eecs.umich.edu>
Obtained from: NetBSD-bugs mailing list
