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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!cs.fredonia.edu!mazumdar From: mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) Subject: Passwords, FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: news@cs.fredonia.edu (News Subsystem) Organization: Department of Math and CS, SUNY College at Fredonia Message-ID: <E6w8In.Mr@cs.fredonia.edu> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: del.cs.fredonia.edu Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:23:11 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5601 Could someone provide the exact steps necessary to make NetBSD use the same password scheme as FreeBSD. The FreeBSD I use generates very long encrypted passwords (much longer than 13 characters). My main motivation is that I would like to share password files across the NetBSD (Suns) and FreeBSD (X86) systems. TIA. -- Jin Mazumdar (internet:) mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S. <<< >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<< >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063 (716) 673 3459 <<<