From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,179caa4250449cb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-01 17:35:04 PST From: harri.haataja@cs.helsinki.fi (Harri J Haataja) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [OT] Linux passwd format Date: 2 Dec 2001 01:18:04 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Message-ID: References: <9sket4$5qs$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pormestarinhepo.cs.helsinki.fi X-Trace: oravannahka.helsinki.fi 1007255884 1225 128.214.48.200 (2 Dec 2001 01:18:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.helsinki.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 2001 01:18:04 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.4 (Linux) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.131.157.171!newsfeed1.wineasy.se!newsfeed.song.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!newsfeed2.funet.fi!news.helsinki.fi!harri.haataja Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17290 Date: 2001-12-02T01:18:04+00:00 List-Id: Adrian Knoth wrote: >Samuel Tardieu 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. =) -- Seagoon: Will my aeroplane need a hangar? Crun: It'd lose its shape hanging on a nail, you know. -- T.A.Milligan & L.Stephens 10 Jan 1957