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From: "Pete Perreault" <pperreault@above.net>
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Subject: MD5/DES passwords
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:41:32 -0800
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It appears that the encrypted passwords within master.passwd file use the
MD5 algorithm.  Is there a way to change this to DES?  Alternatively, is
there a way to create DES encrypted passwords?

thanks for the help.

Pete


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