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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Re: Moving Users from Linux to FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Lines: 22 Organization: Forth EDV Beratung+Schulung Message-ID: <E60CqI.16q@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> References: <E5sqqu.9ox@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <5eclu4$jnn$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> <E5tBK7.C3y@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 14:11:06 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35917 Stephan Forth (stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de) wrote: : : Stephan Forth <stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> wrote: : : > we want to move 150 Users from a Linux Box (1.2.13) to a : : > FreeBSD Box (2.1.6[7]) They surely don't want to get new : : > passwords and I surely don't want to set up 150 new passwords :-) : : > The users only need theire accounts for pop/smtp : : : : 1. don't forget to install the secure distribution to get DES passwords, : : I don't think that a German Linux Distribution uses DES, but I'll : give it a try. You were right, I was wrong. Linux uses DES. After I installed DES on the FreeBSD Box everything went without problems. Regards, Stephan -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 581072 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 581073