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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!davsys.com!news.irbs.com!not-for-mail From: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: MD5 crypt routing from DES Date: 5 Nov 1995 19:23:05 -0500 Organization: IRBS Engineering Lines: 21 Message-ID: <47jkh9$c3v@irbs.irbs.com> References: <47gopd$u7e@rn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: irbs.irbs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8634 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1437 In article <47gopd$u7e@rn.com>, Larry D Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote: >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? > Grab the eBones distribution. DES encryption is in there, eBones/des. Build and install that. Link libcrypt to libdescrypt. lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 18 Oct 17 17:55 /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2.0 -> libdescrypt.so.2.0 If you just want the library let me know and I will put it up for ftp. John Capo jc@irbs.com IRBS Engineering High performance FreeBSD systems (305) 792-9551 Internet Consulting - ISP Solutions