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From: larry@rn.com (Larry D Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: MD5 crypt routing from DES
Date: 4 Nov 1995 17:17:17 -0500
Organization: Larry's ISDN Internet Server in sunny Orlando, FL
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I need to move my user base from a system V machine to FreeBSD.  My
FreeBSD 2.0.5 box is using the default MD5 crypt routine to hash user
passwords, and my existing password database is of course DES-coded.

I've seen documentation for doing this on the web, but I can't find
it again!  Any ideas?

-- 
Larry D Snyder, Orlando, Florida -- larry@RN.com