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To: Dylan Northrup <northrup@ucet.ufl.edu>
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> We're intending on putting a FreeBSD box into production along some AIX
> boxes.  Is there some sort of way that we can get compatability between
> the password generated by FreeBSD and the passwords on the AIX boxen?

I believe it's sufficient just to choose DES encryption at installation time.  
I have a FreeBSD box and a AIX box both as NIS clients to a Linux server, and 
that works for me.