On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > If I don't want to use MD5 in my linux box, is it possible to migrate > the account/password?
> > > How can I transfer the account/password from FreeBSD to Debian? > > > I may be wrong, but I remember FreeBSD uses MD5 passwd encryption while > > > Debian default does not. In this case, how can I migrate the > > > account/password from FreeBSD to Linux? Is there any thing I should keep > > > in mind? If your original passwords are in MD5, but you don't want to use MD5 then you are out of luck. (Unless you want to waste a lot of time running some password crackers.) In addition, the BSD master.passwd file is a different format than the Linux shadow + passwd file. You will need to convert this over. Look at the relevant manual pages. If you really don't want to use MD5 for your shadow file, then you can write some login/pop3d/whatever code that grabs the plain-text password (compares the MD5) and then regenerates a new hash. (For your information, I have moved BSD master.passwd files to Linux a few times. And also from Linux to BSD.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- find answers to your questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
