[OT] Linux passwd format

[harri.haataja@cs.helsinki.fi (Harri J Haataja)]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
>Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:
>
>> | Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD system to a
>> | Linux system?
>> It is not a FreeBSD/Linux issue, it is a password format issue: if you used
>> MD5 passwords under FreeBSD and want to use DES passwords under Linux, 
>
>Linux supports MD5-passwords, too.

Well, really Linux doesn't care squat what the userspace does WRT
logins. Most distributions built on Linux use pam.

So it could be anything. =)

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