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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
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: 28 Jun 1996 16:10:52 GMT
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Uhhhhhhhhh.  Why not simply install the DES distribution?

Since it's just the other way round... he's already _got_ MD5
passwords.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j