From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 31 22:58:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA29975 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 22:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper3b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA29967 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 22:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA02717; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 01:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 01:59:42 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Mark Mayo cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating BSDI 1.1 Passwords In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Mark Mayo wrote: > 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). Considering a possible similar move in the future, I copied a ~700 user BSDI 2.0 set to FreeBSD 2.15 and all 8 of the accounts (including root :-}) that I tried worked. Only minor problems was a complaint about some missing paths. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------