From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 6: 4:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA8514C2D for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 06:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a030.otenet.gr [195.167.115.30]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA00486 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 16:04:11 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 8007 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Nov 1999 13:19:17 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving passwd file to another system References: <1040bc3f05ac5c68474bace45de7ea67381dddc7@(null)> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 02 Nov 1999 15:19:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Nathaniel Schein"'s message of "Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:36:48 -0800" Message-ID: <8666zlrpyi.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Nathaniel Schein" writes: > I have moved the master.passwd file from a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system to a > FreeBSD 3.3 system and all seems to work fine. Users can login with > no problem, but in closer inspection I notice that accounts manually > moved but which have the same passwd and the root user's passwd(which > has not changed) hash are different on each system. Does anyone know > the reason for this? If the one way crypt has changed how can the old > master.passwd file satisfactorily be pasted into the new one? It's probably because some of the passwords use MD5 and others use DES. Both types of passwords can be used in the same master.passwd, as far as I know, without any problem. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message