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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: /etc/passwd compatibility between FreeBSD and BSDI? Date: 4 Jul 1996 10:58:11 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4rg843$g59@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <31dadefd.12208627@news.qtm.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22809 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4230 doc@qtm.net (Craig Norborg) wrote: > I am running a BSDi 2.0.1 system and a FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE > system and I would like to be able to rdist the passwd files between > the two. Is there any way to accomplish this? Currently if the > passwd file is copied between the two, the passwords are not > recognized when logging in. I assume BSD/OS uses DES encryption. FreeBSD uses MD5 encryption by default (it's stronger than DES, and it is US-exportable code since it can only be used for authentication purposes, not for actual encryption). However, you can downgrade :) your FreeBSD system to DES, using the `securedist'. This should make your password entries exchangeable. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j