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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
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To: gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: DES to MD5
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>    We're changing servers from SCO to FreeBSD, but freebsd
>  is alredy installed with MD5. Is there any way of converting
>  user passwords from DES to MD5?

install the DES package. The DES encyption routines first looks for the
MD5 prefix ($1$), if found it automatically uses the MD5 encryption routine.

In short the DES package is backward compatible with MD5.

--mark.