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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:52:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Subject: Re: des and md5 passwd encryption - problem
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> 
> I upgraded a machine from 2.0.5 to 2.2.5 yesterday and preserved my
> old master.passwd. Then I installed libdescrypt.so.2.0 from a machine
> in our network since the binary dist doesn't have the libdes stuff
> (I took a version from internat.freebsd.org).

How old a descrypt?  The stock des distribution can do both MD5 and DES;
at least since the 2.1.0 days.  2.0.5 may not have had that capability.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major