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From: Doug McNaught <doug@feanor.towson.edu>
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
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 23 Jun 1996 14:36:53 -0400
Organization: Towson State University, Towson, MD
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To: parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com (Parthiv Shah)
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[mailed and posted]
parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com (Parthiv Shah) writes:
> 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...?
> 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??
You're going to have to change everyone's password. Even though the
traditional DES-based hash is weaker than MD5, there's still basically
no way to recover the plaintext passwords from their crypted
equivalents.
-Doug
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Doug McNaught Systems Integrator Towson State University
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