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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!nothing.ucsd.edu!brian From: brian@nothing.ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Moving BSDI passwd file to Linux Date: 22 Dec 1995 04:59:33 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4bddvl$l48@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <4avs40$npb@newsNewSnews> <4b5ifh$odl@news.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nothing.ucsd.edu We have found that BSDI's password encryption disagrees with Sun's password encryption for certain passwords, particularly some which are 7 characters long. I'm told that BSDI doesn't consider this to be a problem, but we think it's a real bitch when trying to do remote authentication using a shared password database, e.g., RADIUS or similar. The solution seems to be to replace BSDI's 'pwcrypt' with one stolen from the Crack package or elsewhere. At least, that's what I'm trying next. Thank goodnes for source. I think Linux's password crypt agrees with Sun's but I haven't tried it yet as we don't have any Linux systems participating in our common authentication cluster. If it does, then quite possibly some of the passwords you move over from BSDI to Linux aren't going to work. - Brian