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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: DES worses MD5 password file Date: 23 Jun 1996 20:02:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qk7ss$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qhuas$m6o@news.idt.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:43947 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4129 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21996 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1153 parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com (Parthiv Shah) wrote: > Guys any one ever tryed to convert from MD5 to DES there password file? > anyone was ever successful on it, any programs, scripts written that > can help me out on this...? It's impossible. Unless your users chose passwords that are poor enough so you could crack(8) them... > BSDI password file format is DES > and FreeBSD is MD5, I want to move my users from FreeBSD to BSDI > anyone have any idea, what is the smoothest way of doing this?? No idea for this direction. For the other direction, it's not that difficult, since FreeBSD's crypt(3) does now (i.e., in -current and -stable) understand both, MD5 and DES encrypted passwords. (Both are easily distinguishable.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)