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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:50:27 +0800 (WST)
From:      Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To:        Jason McKay <jasonm@webace.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: master.passwd question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907041049520.1764-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <000501bec57f$59026440$70a019cb@webace.com.au>

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On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Jason McKay wrote:

> I have two servers running FreeBSD, the first is running v2.2.5-RELEASE and
> the second is running v2.2.8-RELEASE.  I am trying to merge both user
> databases together on the second server.  I have done this before with out
> problems, but this time the master.passwd files appear to be different.
> 
> -- example from the 1st servers master.passwd:
> username:$1$cM5xQB8Y$9k1ZKitiFs6qCyfNlx5A2/:1007:
> 
> -- example from the 2nd servers master.passwd
> username:9JgmXHPM8PH0g:1007:
> 
> The passwords are a different length.  Why is this? ... how can I merge the
> two together without problems?

The first is MD4, the second is DES. They're different types of encryption
methods.

Regards,

d.



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