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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
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Subject: Re: MD5 crypt routing from DES
Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:43:55 GMT
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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