From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 15:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5869737B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko@dynas.se) Received: (qmail 87950 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2001 23:25:57 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by 172.16.1.1 with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 23:25:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 5086 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2001 23:25:55 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 23:25:55 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f25NPsC76544; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:25:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:25:54 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200103052325.f25NPsC76544@explorer.rsa.com> To: wmoran@iowna.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUN TO BSD Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <3AA402DD.1F4D19C1@iowna.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >Marc W wrote: >> >> >> It actually shouldn't be that hard to write a script to convert all >> the information-- except for the passwords themselves -- The encrypted >> version of a password that I have same across my Solaris 8 and FreeBSD >> 4.2 machines aren't the same. >> >> No idea how you'd convert those ... :( >I believe this has to do with the system default password encryption >scheme. If both your Solaris & FreeBSD boxes are using the same >encryption scheme you should see the same encryped password. I've seen Nope. Password encryption schemes adds a "salt" (12 bits for the traditional DES version) to try to avoid passwords encrypting to the same value -- otherwise dictionary attacks become a lot simpler. /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message