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Date: 	Tue, 7 Mar 1995 14:08:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To: SACBBX <rdugaue@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: passwds across BSD machines
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On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, SACBBX wrote:

> I have a small BSD network of 3 machines. I'd rather not run NIS for now. 
> I thought I could get by by syncing master.passwd files on each machine 
> and rebuilding the database. However, it seems that the passwd encryption 
> differs on each BSD machine as Pws don't work on the machines I export 
> the master.passwd file too. Is this true or is something screwy? They are 
> all running the same version of BSD.

  Which version of FreeBSD?  Have you installed securedist?  I've done 
this before with 1.1.5.1+securedist with no problems.

Tom