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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Willie Bollinger <willie@abs.net>
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Subject: Re: encryption
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:59:21AM -0400, Willie Bollinger wrote:
> I recently installed 4.3 on a new box but it now seems that it is using
> md5 encryption instead of des, Is there an easy way to change this so when 
> I move the password file off of the old machine that it will recognize the 
> des passwords?

It should just work - it can tell from the format of the password
entry what type of password to use.

	David.

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