Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:20:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf@samurai.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905031019130.995-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990502182853.D32819@bitbox.follo.net>
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I actually think this is a good idea, as I kept my OpenBSD sparc box up
when I moved to FreeBSD, but it would have been nice to be able to move
passwd files between them, would have made it less of a hassle for me.
-Pat
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On Sun, 2 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> Moved to -chat - please try to hold the lists reasonably to their
> topic.
>
> On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> > On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > >
> > > The point of this exercise would (IMO, at least) only be OpenBSD
> > > compatibility, where OpenBSD for marketeering reasons has decided to
> > > use Blowfish as part of their hash algorithm. If people can't migrate
> > > their password files, they are much less likely to migrate to FreeBSD,
> > > which means we should support their password formats if feasible.
> >
> > Are there many people migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD?
>
> I don't know - but the chance of there being many of them increases if
> there is a simple way for them to migrate. This needs to include the
> ability to keep their old password files.
>
> Eivind.
>
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