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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: password file: NetBSD -> FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 04:26:49 -0700
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To: James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk>

James Raynard wrote:
> >Or can I use two library's encryption in parallel?
> 
> I think you'll have to use DES on FreeBSD (making sure, of course to
> download the des distribution from a non-US host).

You can merge the DES and MD5 password files together, but only on the
FreeBSD side.  FreeBSD can deal with a mixed password file containing
both DES and MD5 as of post 2.1R (e.g. in all the SNAPs).

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project