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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: MD5 crypt routing from DES
Date: 5 Nov 1995 23:14:14 +0100
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Larry D Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>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 think installing the DES distribution would be all you need.

Basically, you need to:

	. install the DES libraries (libdescrypt*) under /usr/lib
	. make the libcrypt* symlinks point to the DES versions
	. re-install a couple of statically linked binaries that
	  are using -lcrypt: /sbin/init, and /bin/[r]ed.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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