Subject: Re: MD5 Passwd
To: Diego Linke - GAMK <gamk@gamk.com.br>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/24/2001 20:52:14
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:22:38PM -0300, Diego Linke - GAMK wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> How i migration the passwd with DES password to MD5 password ?
> 
> My passord the max lenght is 8 chars :~~

There's no way to convert DES-encrypted passwd to MD5-encrypted (this would
require decrypting the passwd fied from /etc/passwd which is not supposed to
be possible).
You have to ask all your users to enter passwd again.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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