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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!io.org!van-bc!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: MD5 crypt routing from DES Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:43:55 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <47jenb$7s@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <47gopd$u7e@rn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8177 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1359 In article <47gopd$u7e@rn.com>, larry@rn.com says... > >I need to move my user base from a system V machine to FreeBSD. My >FreeBSD 2.0.5 box is using the default MD5 crypt routine to hash user >passwords, and my existing password database is of course DES-coded. > >I've seen documentation for doing this on the web, but I can't find >it again! Any ideas? Install securedist and your FreeBSD system will use DES too. Tom