Subject: Re: change mailing system - linux to netbsd
To: Pavel Trubl <trubl@katel.cz>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/09/2003 20:35:17
Pavel Trubl writes:

>I want change my mailing system. What's the easiest way of putting my 
>current user accounts from Linux RH 6.2 to NetBSD? I especially want 
>know about converting the coded passwords.

Gnu/Linux uses either 3DES or MD5 as passwort hashing, and NetBSD does
also.  So you should be able to copy the password strings directly
over.  Please note that NetBSD prepends the string "$1$" to MD5
passwords, in case Linux doesn't do that.

-- 
  Matthias Buelow;  mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}