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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: password file: NetBSD -> FreeBSD Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 04:26:49 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31C14C79.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4pmh3b$3te@mc3.mcnet.ch> <4pnf19$9kq@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> James Raynard wrote: > >Or can I use two library's encryption in parallel? > > I think you'll have to use DES on FreeBSD (making sure, of course to > download the des distribution from a non-US host). You can merge the DES and MD5 password files together, but only on the FreeBSD side. FreeBSD can deal with a mixed password file containing both DES and MD5 as of post 2.1R (e.g. in all the SNAPs). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project