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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Haapanen, Tom wrote:

> murcielago 125 # passwd tomh
>
> Changing local password for tomh.
> New password:
> Retype new password:
> passwd: cannot set password cipher: Undefined error: 0
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> murcielago 126 #

This would be a hack, but you could leave your MD5 libraries where they
are and then create the DES crypt manually (either by using 'htpasswd' or
crypt() itself) and then insert it in to your password file via vipw.
FreeBSD's crypt, as I understand it, automatically recognizes MD5 and DES
crypts.



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