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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!news.hn.netlink.co.nz!kcbbs!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Moving from md5 to DES... ? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:32:01 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <339F2761.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <339ED683.2682269F@easynet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Michael Hallgren <hallgren@easynet.fr> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42759 Michael Hallgren wrote: > I'm about to migrate a Web server from BSDI to FreeBSD. There is an > incompatibility concerning encryption of the passwords (I want to avoid > some work taking the old one for use on the FreeBSD box). Does someone > know attractive routine/tool for this kind of manipulation (that is, > to change the encryption base from md5 to DES) ? Just install the des distribution on the FreeBSD box (available from ftp.internat.freebsd.org for you) and your FreeBSD box will handle DES passwords no problem. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.