From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 01:34:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15500 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:34:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA00833; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:33:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Imran Aslam Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: DES to MD5 References: <01BE2857.35E63E20@opkri050.orangenet.co.uk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 16 Dec 1998 10:33:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: Imran Aslam's message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:17:41 -0000" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Imran Aslam writes: > I need to know if there is an easy way to convert the Linux password > file, which I believe is encrypted in DES format to the MD5 format > that FreeBSD uses... 1) No, it's not possible. If it were possible, it would also be possible to crack all the passwords on your system, and you wouldn't want that, would you? 2) FreeBSD supports DES passwords just fine, if you install the DES libraries (the installation utility will ask you whether or not you want to install them), but FreeBSD password files have a few more fields than Linux password files. See the passwd(5) man page. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message