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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: --- Moving up from ix/386 to 386BSD !?! ---
Message-ID: <1993Mar29.114424.16780@gmd.de>
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References: <1993Mar29.085146.768@zap.uucp>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 11:44:24 GMT
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In article <1993Mar29.085146.768@zap.uucp>, fortin@zap.uucp (Denis Fortin) writes:
[...]
|> Before I upgrade, I have three basic questions that aren't
|> really answered by the FAQ list for 386BSD:
|>
|> a) I noticed in the "release notes" that it says DES is not implemented.
|> Does that mean I cannot take encoded strings from /etc/passwd on my
|> System V and plunk them in /etc/passwd under 386BSD? (I have a number
|> of uucp logins, and I haven't kept track of the passwords for them, so
|> I'd need to salvage the encoded strings from /etc/passwd).
386bsd does not have the routine 'crypt' in the library, because of the known
brain-dead US export regulations. You can get a working crypt from
many (often non-US) sites, which does the required job. BTW: 386bsd
no longer stores passwds in /etc/passwd, but in some kind of shadow file.
Look for something like 'uunet-crypt', or go through the NET/2 distribution
where it comes from.
|> b) I have a v.32bis modem which runs pretty regularly at high speeds for
|> uucp and Zmodem transfers. I use it with hardware flow control in
|> conjunction with a NS16550A uart and the FAS driver for SVR3 Unix
|> to get pretty decent throughput (I have it locked at 38400 bps).
|> Do I need to do anything special and/or extraordinary after I've
|> installed 0.1 to get this to work fine/fast? (I assume that I'd
|> have to get to the 0.1.2.2 patchlevel?)
You need the latest patchkit. You should also get cgd's (or better
bde's) com-driver. This should work ;-) The code should be available from
agate.berkeley.edu.
|> c) I assume 386BSD doesn't come with HDB uucp. Which uucp comes with
|> it? The old "L.sys" style uucp? Any surprises in that area?
It uses Taylor uucp, the one which is distributed by GNU. I recommend
getting the latest package from prep.ai.mit.edu (or another GNU site),
in particular to get the latest documentation. Taylor uucp is quite
different from HDB.
|> Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca, lmcdefo@lmc.ericsson.se
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