system password's file

[Divacky Roman]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:54:26AM -0500 I heard the voice of
> Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > I don't know if it's fixed now or not.
> 
> I just converted a Mandrake box a month or so ago, which used MD5
> hashes.  Worked flawlessly.
> 
> 
> > Hm, considering the we'd like people to migrate from Linux to
> > FreeBSD, having such a conversion script/program (especially if
> > someone writes it for their own use anyway) in the base system would
> > make a lot of sense.
> 
> It's not that hard.  Somebody mentioned an awk script.  I slapped it
> together in perl in about 5 minutes.  I'll bet it's in /tmp
> somewhere...

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#passwd

openbsd is nice sometimes :)