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From: parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com (Parthiv Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: DES worses MD5 password file
Date: 22 Jun 1996 23:07:08 GMT
Organization: IDT Corporation
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Guys any one ever tryed to convert from MD5 to DES there password file?
anyone was ever successful on it, any programs, scripts written that
can help me out on this...?
BSDI password file format is DES
and FreeBSD is MD5, I want to move my users from FreeBSD to BSDI
anyone have any idea, what is the smoothest way of doing this??

Please email me the reply.
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