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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Belgium.EU.net!news.bel.alcatel.be!bln.sel.alcatel.de!slsv6bt!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!ardbeg.islay.sub.org!ardbeg.islay.sub.org!pmh From: pmh@ardbeg.islay.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: passwd encryption Date: 10 Sep 1996 16:56:45 GMT Organization: Patrick M. Hausen - private site Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5146kd$6vi@ardbeg.islay.sub.org> References: <513tkg$l7i@hobbes.crc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dan Benjamin (dpb@monster.hqs.crc.com) wrote: : Hello, : We have a samba server that handles the sharing of drives it mounts : via nfs from a solaris server. This system is fine, however we run : into problems when giving users access to these services using the : passwd file. : The solaris box uses a different encryption scheme than FreeBSD (of : course) and this makes for a problem - users cannot simply be added to : the FreeBSD samba server - we must *force* them to login and manually : set a new password - to match the one on the solaris box. : Any suggestions as to how I might somehow change the FreeBSD : encryption scheme so it matches solaris - or any other suggestions to : eliminate some of the problem? Did you fetch and install the "securedist"? It's not on the CD-ROM. Be sure to get the international version from one of the following places, if you're located outside the U.S. ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD ftp://storm.sea.uct.ac.za/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp.iqm.unicamp.br/pub/FreeBSD ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt FreeBSD uses MD5 password encryption by default for legal reasons. Paddy -- Patrick M. Hausen Gerwigstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe pmh@islay.sub.org "Oh, was wuerde ich jetzt nicht fuer eine gute altmodische britische Langeweile geben ..." -- David Brin in "Erde"