From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 3 7:20:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B3A15272; Mon, 3 May 1999 07:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05884; Mon, 3 May 1999 10:20:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:20:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Bryan Fullerton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish In-Reply-To: <19990502182853.D32819@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I actually think this is a good idea, as I kept my OpenBSD sparc box up when I moved to FreeBSD, but it would have been nice to be able to move passwd files between them, would have made it less of a hassle for me. -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking "Wow, everyone looks different in Real Life (tm)"- Nathan Dorfman meeting people at FUNY "Suicide is painless, switching to NT isn't."- Unknown ___________________________________________________________________________ On Sun, 2 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > 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-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message