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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:12:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DES & MD5?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9906151306060.8046-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
In-Reply-To: <37667C35.68E9E594@ispro.net.tr>

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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> Hello,
> I think when you use MD5 or DES you can still have different kind of
> passwords in your password file.
> I have found this when I accidentally changed from DES to MD5 at an
> installation and it was working (we did not even understand the
> difference
> 
> 

Some of my colleagues here claimed they dropped an MD5 master.passwd
file onto a machine on which a DES master.passwd had previously been
and they said it worked. I didn't believe them at the time.

-

Barrett Richardson
barrett@phoenix.aye.net



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