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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
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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.