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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:22:29 -0700
From:      garya@bea.com (Gary Aitken)
To:        Chuck Rock <carock@bea.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/passwd upgrade
Message-ID:  <3A26B705.BB9C836E@beasys.com>
References:  <003e01c05aff$21333be0$1805010a@epconline.net>

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Chuck Rock wrote:
> 
> We've upgraded from 2.2.8 to 3.2 and will be soon 4.2 by just copying the
> passwd files over.
> 
> There is a mix of 3DES and MD5 passwords in the passwd file as 2.2.8 was
> configured with 3DES and the 3.2 is configrued with MD5. All new users get
> MD5 by default, but the users with 3DES password still work, and won't get
> MD5 unless they change their password.
> 
> We've had no problems whatsoever with this, but all the home directories and
> so forth have to match the passwd file.
> 
> Is the 128bit ecryption mentioned the MD5 passwords, or is this a security
> feature we havent used on our system that would make this copying of passwd
> files not work?

Thanks. I copied the appropriate entries from the old (2.1) file and it 
appears to be working, so you should be ok.


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