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Subject: DES to MD5
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Hello,

There is no automatic way for this conversion, the main reason being that
both encryption methods are designed NOT to be inverted : you just can't
easily go from a DES-encrypted- to the cleartext Password then back to an
MD5-encrypted one.
If you have installed DES on your machine, FreeBSD can use both types of
passwords (MD5 passwords are marked by a "$1$" string)

	TfH

> Can some one please help me..
> 
> I am upgrading some Linux systems to FreeBSD.
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> Imran Aslam
> 
> Imran@orangenet.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
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