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Re: migration from FreeBSD 4.4 to Debian 2.2r4



On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Patrick Hsieh wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> My company has a plan to migrate a FreeBSD 4.4 to Debian 2.2r4.
> A couple of minutes of downtime is acceptable, but my core problem is:
>
> How can I transfer the account/password from FreeBSD to Debian?
> I may be wrong, but I remember FreeBSD uses MD5 passwd encryption while
> Debian default does not. In this case, how can I migrate the
> account/password from FreeBSD to Linux? Is there any thing I should keep
> in mind?

During Debian installation you are given the choice to use MD5 passwords
or not.

Brian
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