Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:37:42 +1100 (EST) From: Rich Siggs <rich@goliath.spirit.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: rich@goliath.spirit.net.au (Rich Siggs) Subject: Q: exportable DES library & "DES How To" for 2.1-STABLE Message-ID: <199602200337.OAA00250@goliath.spirit.net.au>
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Greetings, I am having some grief with the conversion/use of DES password encryption on my 2.1-STABLE hosts and I'm looking for definitive non-US sources of the DES source distibutions (des.aa), plus a guide to the migration & use of DES on 2.1 (in particular, I'm lead to believe that there's a version of the DES distrib that can deal with _both_ DES & MD5 passwords - that'd be good! ;) As a bit of background, my motivation for doing this is to upgrade my Servers from "'ole faithful" (aka. fBSD 1.1.5.1-RELEASE) to 2.1-STABLE, but avoiding at all costs the saga of forcing password changes on 100s of clients. (which I'm just not even contemplating.. :|) My assumption is that once the right DES s/ware is installed to 2.1, I can simply take fBSD 1.1 master.passwd over to 2.1, run pwd_mkdb & login without trouble - is this correct? Finally, I have obtained a (supposed) "non-US" 2.1 des.aa from a site in Japan, but there were no diffs between its files & those of the "US" des.aa & though that sure did give me DES passwds, taking a fBSD 1.1 passwd entry over to that 2.1-STABLE host didn't allow me to login.. *sigh* Any and all help much appreciated & apologies for any inappropriate cross-mailing of this message, but I'm also interested in any comments other fBSD ISPs may have on the subject of migration to 2.1.. Many thanks & keep up the fine work, Rich. -- Richard Siggs admin@spirit.net.au Spirit Networks Pty Ltd http://www.spirit.net.au P.O. Box 486 +61 6 281 3552 Curtin. ACT. Australia 2605 +61 414 486 708
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