From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 11:16:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sparv.it.uu.se (sparv.it.uu.se [130.238.9.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E7137B403 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by sparv.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06803; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:43:38 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:43:38 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Aaron" Cc: mw@lanfear.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: Copying users Message-ID: <20010830194337.A6776@student.uu.se> References: <20010830173901.7D92937B401@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010830173901.7D92937B401@hub.freebsd.org>; from click46@webpimps.net on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:36:37AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:36:37AM -0700, Aaron wrote: > I'm not really sure, but I have a feeling the password encryption has > changed somewhat since 3.4. I would think there would be some sort of > utility to convert them? Again, I'm not really sure on such things. No. The default encryption method (MD5 vs. DES) might have changed (I am not sure about that) but old password files should still be perfectly usable. No need to convert them. (If anything is the other way around since it used to be that not all systems had the DES routines installed. Now they do have it.) (Personally I still use the same password file with 4.3-stable as I did with 3.2-release.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message