From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 2 9:28:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1142015107; Sun, 2 May 1999 09:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA17692; Sun, 2 May 1999 18:28:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA33527; Sun, 2 May 1999 18:28:53 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 18:28:53 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Bryan Fullerton Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <19990502182853.D32819@bitbox.follo.net> References: <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990502144906.E23950@bitbox.follo.net> <199905021458.QAA02696@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990502170929.B32819@bitbox.follo.net> <199905021541.RAA02885@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990502181647.C32819@bitbox.follo.net> <19990502122142.A289@samurai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990502122142.A289@samurai.com>; from Bryan Fullerton on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:21:43PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moved to -chat - please try to hold the lists reasonably to their topic. On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > > The point of this exercise would (IMO, at least) only be OpenBSD > > compatibility, where OpenBSD for marketeering reasons has decided to > > use Blowfish as part of their hash algorithm. If people can't migrate > > their password files, they are much less likely to migrate to FreeBSD, > > which means we should support their password formats if feasible. > > Are there many people migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD? I don't know - but the chance of there being many of them increases if there is a simple way for them to migrate. This needs to include the ability to keep their old password files. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message