It was suggested that this query be posted to the pmax group.
Any pointers apprectiated.
johnh...
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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, John C. Hayward wrote:

> Dear NetBSDers,
> 
>    We are in the process of migrating mail users from an Ulitrx machine
> running in secure mode to a NetBSD machine.  When Ultrix is running
> in secure mode it's passwords are stored in an "auth" database and it
> apparently uses a crypt16 library routine to allow up to 16 character
> passwords.  If you take the encrypted password on the Ultrix system and
> us it in NetBSD password file it does not work - presumably because the
> crypt routines are different.
> 
>    We will probably give users a unique default password if there is no
> way to migrate their passwords.
> 
>    Any suggestions on migrating passwords from Ultrix secure to NetBSD
> would be appreciated.
> 
> johnh...
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>