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To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: Willie Bollinger <willie@abs.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: encryption
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David Malone wrote:

> 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.

I think he means for new accounts. I believe this is now in login.conf 
as the "passwd_format" item.


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