From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 31 21:29:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26350 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scooter.quickweb.com (scooter.quickweb.com [199.212.134.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26345 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:29:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by scooter.quickweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA03310 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 00:35:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 00:35:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Migrating BSDI 1.1 Passwords Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I have a BSDI 1.1 server with about 3000 users... I REALLY want to move it to FreeBSD (2.1.5), but I'm concerned about the password files. I know FreeBSD ships with MD5, and I'm in Canada so that means I can safely use DES crypt routines - but does that mean I can use password files that are DES encrypted?? (i.e. BSDI 1.1) Has anyone moved BSDI password files to a FreeBSD system? If so, I'd love to hear about your success (hopefully not failure). TIA for any help, -Mark ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch