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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a stable release
Date: 23 Aug 1995 14:23:20 +0200
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Superuser <root@buffnet.net> wrote:
>Are the password files compatible between 2.0 and 2.0.5?
Default password encryption is MD5, and unlikely to change soon. It's
a strong encryption algorithm (stronger than DES), and it's exportable
code.
However, if you are bound to DES for one reason or the other (NIS,
upgrade from a system with a large installed user base etc.), you can
add the DES distribution, and link libcrypt to libdescrypt.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)