Unix password encrypt systems
When you plan to share passwords amongst a number of different UNIX machines, with different operating system types, it is important of course that all the passwords function on all the different machines.
One solution to this is to adopt a known normal password distribution scheme like Kerberos.
But WPICS does not use this scheme, so we must check, ahead of time, to make sure that the UNIX/Linux distros we use will all comprehend the set of passwords that we already have on hand. There are something like 20 MD5 passwords and about 120 blowfish passwords.
FreeBSD understands 3DES, blowfish and md5. CentOS understands descrypt, bigcrypt, md5, sha256, and sha512. Fedora 11 understands the same as CentOS.
It appears that the only encryption scheme we can use on multiple machines is md5 at this stage.
Too bad 120 users are using blowfish. :(