> Biggest problems you may face when using system passwords may be the fact
> that BSD, I believe uses a different crypt setup that is essentially
> incompatible with the crypt in Linux. So encrypted passwords cannot
> be simply transferred from one to the other.
AFAIK BSD generates MD5 encrypted passwords. Linux can support that. At
least the latest RedHat distribution with recent PAM packages.
Cristian Gafton
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