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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!sja From: sja@tekla.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: password file: NetBSD -> FreeBSD Date: 13 Jun 1996 09:38:52 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 17 Message-ID: <SJA.96Jun13123852@poveri.tekla.fi> References: <4pmh3b$3te@mc3.mcnet.ch> <4pnf19$9kq@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: poveri.tekla.fi In-reply-to: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk's message of 12 Jun 1996 22:06:33 -0000 >>I want to migrate from NetBSD to FreeBSD. >>On NetBSD I use DES encryption and on FreeBSD I would like to use MD5. >> >>Is it possible to convert password file? What could be done to assist this kind of migration (a Small Matter of Programming): A user types his password. login(1) notices, "oops, the password file has a DES password and this system is configured for MD5". login then checks the password against DES; if ok, it re-encrypts it with MD5 and inserts it into the password file. After all users have logged in once, all passwords will have been converted. Alternatively, login could accept the DES password and ask the user to run passwd(1) which would insert the new password using MD5. ++sja