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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!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!van-bc!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: DES worses MD5 password file Date: 26 Jun 1996 12:19:11 -0700 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4qs2ff$b1f@cynic.portal.ca> References: <4qhuas$m6o@News.IDT.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44121 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4156 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22203 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1168 In article <4qhuas$m6o@News.IDT.NET>, Parthiv Shah <parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com> wrote: >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?? Yes. Get a source licence for BSDI and replace the crypt() stuff in their libraries and shared libraries with FreeBSD's crypt() stuff. You'll also have to recompile any statically linked binaries. I think this is a good argument for using the old, crummy Unix DES in password files until you're absolutely sure that the system users are residing on is going to be the last one they'll ever reside on. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.