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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: master.passwd problem
Date: 30 Apr 1997 10:35:02 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <roark-2904971742230001@design.goldstag.com>,
roark@bulloch.com (Michael Roark) writes:
> Our company is currently in the middle of moving from one service provider
> to another and have run into a snag. Both servers, old and new, are
> running FreeBSD, but the old one uses a longer encryption string in the
> master.passwd file than the new one. We were told to rebuild the kernel
> with the extra encryption feature. The only problem is that we don't know
> what to build into the kernel to use the feature.
>
> Any suggestions?
It should already be able to understand. If DES is installed on the
new machine, I believe the crypt() routine says something like
"if the first three characters are $1$ use MD5, else DES".
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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