From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 15 20:26:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D9437B502 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1E4271C41; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:26:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:26:12 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Stephen Hocking Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting Linux NIS to work with FreeBSD NIS servers Message-ID: <20001015232612.S37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200010160323.e9G3N5G48210@bloop.craftncomp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200010160323.e9G3N5G48210@bloop.craftncomp.com>; from shocking@houston.rr.com on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:23:05PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:23:05PM -0500, Stephen Hocking wrote: > The Linux box appears toknow about the users, it just cant get the passwords > right - something tickles my mind about DES vs MD5, is this the case, and how > do I convert my MD5 passwords if needed? Yes thats the case, no there is no "conversion" program. If there was a conversion program it would mean there is a way to translate to plaintext and that obviously isn't the case (modulo brute-force). -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message