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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 1999 02:21:23 -0800
From:      "D.M.P." <dmp@aracnet.com>
To:        Chris Manjoine <chris-manjoine@uiowa.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: encryption in freebsd
Message-ID:  <381EBB23.71658E8E@aracnet.com>
References:  <4.1.19991101141319.00bdbaa0@mail.vpr.uiowa.edu>

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Chris Manjoine wrote:
> 
> > I have resently updated my freebsd from 3.2 to 3.3.
> > I got everything put back in place and everything runs fine except
> > for logins
> > I found out after comparing a new login that works to the old
> > logins in the master.passwd file that the encryption is different
> > I think I am using DES encryption rather than MD5 is there any way
> > I can convert the MD5 encrypted logins to DES or can I change the
> > default authentication to MD5?

You can't convert the MD5 passwords to DES, but you install the DES
encryption from sysinstall.

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