Hi all, I am upgrading some servers in my home network and would like to change the format of the password files from crypt to md5. I understand that one cannot covert crypt to md5 as that would require cracking the crypt and re-hashing as md5. I don't have that long 8^) I am wondering if /etc/shadow et. all will handle both formats and encode into md5 the next time a user changes their password? For example, I install a new server OS, set the hash for the passwords to md5, can I then cut and paste the old crypt passwords into the new file and have it work? Then send out a notice to my users to change their passwords, thus changing them to md5? I am moving to SuSE 9.1 (when it's available) on the servers in question. Has anyone done something similar? Thanks, -- Marc C.