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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:48:07 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        james@site-fx.net
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Migrate Web Server Users from OpenBSD
Message-ID:  <20010924004807.A5421@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200109230727.f8N7R0l02035@joshua.site-fx.net>
References:  <200109230727.f8N7R0l02035@joshua.site-fx.net>

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james@site-fx.net wrote:
> Does anyone have a quick way of moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for a web 
> server.  Does OpenBSD support blowfish encyption by default or through 
> changing passwd.conf so that I can just copy the master.passwd file over 
> and rebuild the shadow passwd file.

If Blowfish is the only impediment in switching, then the answer is ``yes,
it's supported''.  From the manpage of login.conf(5) I quote:

| passwd_format  string  md5    The encryption format that new or
|                               changed passwords will use.  Valid
|                               values include "des", "md5" and
|                               "blf".  NIS clients using a
|                               non-FreeBSD NIS server should prob-
|                               ably use "des".

Of course, the question that arises from a thought of switching to FreeBSD
(mind you, at times I enjoy being a raving FreeBSD lunatic), is:

	Why are you going to change your operating system?
	If it isn't broken, why `fix' it?
	Even if it *is* broken, are you sure FreeBSD is not broken too?

-giorgos


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