Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:45:58 -0700 From: "James A. Peltier" <james@site-fx.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrate Web Server Users from OpenBSD Message-ID: <200109232249.f8NMnTl30243@joshua.site-fx.net> In-Reply-To: <20010924004807.A5421@hades.hell.gr>
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Just more applications available for FreeBSD, pgaccess, mods for apache etc. I'm not moving all my servers to FreeBSD just some of the busier Websites since OpenBSD tends to be much slower for some reason than Free. DNS, Secure HTTP, FTP etc is still going to be on Open. -James A. Peltier On Sunday, September 23, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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