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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MS Frontpage Ext. for FreeBSD?
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 01:31:16 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Curt Welch <curt@kcwc.com>
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Curt Welch wrote:
> I remember two problems.  The first is that FreeBSD has
> a different version of crypt (using MD5 instead of the normal
> Unix version).  This breaks passwords, and means that you
> can't log into the server (password rejected).  This is talked
> about in the FrontPage faqs.

Only if the "des" distribution is not loaded.  If you do load it, this
problem does not occur as everything is now DES-aware (though older MD5
passwords will still work).
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.