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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: Moving Users from Linux to FreeBSD
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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 14:11:06 GMT
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Stephan Forth (stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de) wrote:
: : Stephan Forth <stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> wrote:
: : > we want to move 150 Users from a Linux Box (1.2.13) to a 
: : > FreeBSD Box (2.1.6[7]) They surely don't want to get new
: : > passwords and I surely don't want to set up 150 new passwords :-)
: : > The users only need theire accounts for pop/smtp
: : 
: : 1. don't forget to install the secure distribution to get DES passwords,
: 
: I don't think that a German Linux Distribution uses DES, but I'll
: give it a try.

You were right, I was wrong. Linux uses DES. After I installed
DES on the FreeBSD Box everything went without problems.


Regards, Stephan

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