On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Two more ideas: 
> 
> - implement the authentication code (libdescrypt) from FreeBSD which
> allows use of both DES and MD5;
> 
> - modify login (and/or other tools) to use the plain text password to
> generate a new MD5 hash; after a while you may have all passwords
> converted and then you can switch over (after you have changed crypt(3) to
> use md5 or changed all your needed tools to use a different md5
> crypt-replacement).
> 
> Also, I noticed these messages, which made me think that some
> version of crypt(3) for NetBSD may already have MD5 support:

Yes, see passwd.conf(5)

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