From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 3 19:50:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EB514ED1 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 19:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01864; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:50:27 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:50:27 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Jason McKay Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master.passwd question In-Reply-To: <000501bec57f$59026440$70a019cb@webace.com.au> Message-ID: X-no-archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Jason McKay wrote: > I have two servers running FreeBSD, the first is running v2.2.5-RELEASE and > the second is running v2.2.8-RELEASE. I am trying to merge both user > databases together on the second server. I have done this before with out > problems, but this time the master.passwd files appear to be different. > > -- example from the 1st servers master.passwd: > username:$1$cM5xQB8Y$9k1ZKitiFs6qCyfNlx5A2/:1007: > > -- example from the 2nd servers master.passwd > username:9JgmXHPM8PH0g:1007: > > The passwords are a different length. Why is this? ... how can I merge the > two together without problems? The first is MD4, the second is DES. They're different types of encryption methods. Regards, d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message