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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: /etc/passwd compatibility between FreeBSD and BSDI?
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 21:03:42 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net>
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Geert Jan de Groot wrote:
> I hate to contradict Jordan, but BSDI ships with the 'standard' DES
> encryption code, so you don't need to install anything extra on BSD/OS.

Huh.  When I got my copy of BSD/OS 2.0, it had DES and Kerberos on an
extra floppy which you'd install with their package installer.  It
wasn't part of the CD base distribution.  Are you saying that you in
Holland get a distribution CD with DES already on it?  "Hmmmmm.  How
Interesting.." :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project