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Date:      02 Nov 1999 15:19:17 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving passwd file to another system
Message-ID:  <8666zlrpyi.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: "Nathaniel Schein"'s message of "Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:36:48 -0800"
References:  <1040bc3f05ac5c68474bace45de7ea67381dddc7@(null)>

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"Nathaniel Schein" <nschein@prisa.com> 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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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