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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 1997 08:31:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
To:        gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DES to MD5
Message-ID:  <199710241331.IAA07240@plains.NoDak.edu>

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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.




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