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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Passwords, FreeBSD
Date: 12 Mar 1997 16:38:44 GMT
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mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) wrote:

> 	My main motivation is that I would like to share password 
> files across the NetBSD (Suns)  and FreeBSD (X86) systems.

Failing to implement the MD5-based crypt(3) in NetBSD, simply switch
your FreeBSD to using DES passwords.

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