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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux passwd file : HELP Date: 28 Sep 1996 19:46:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <52jvb8$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <324CFC67.6874@novanet.net.au> 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 Sandhya <sandy@novanet.net.au> wrote: > Apparently this is because of the DES encryption not being available > outside US (I am in Australia). Anyone know how to convert the passwd > file ? The DES encryption _is_ available outside the US (and well, i think the one that is being used by FreeBSD for outside US is even an Australian one :). Try ftp.internat.freebsd.org, but it's a slow connection. I'm not sure, perhaps ftp.de.freebsd.org is faster for you, they might also mirror the international DES distribution. Of course, since password encryption cannot be reverted, you can't move DES passwords to MD5 (or vica verse). -- 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. ;-)