Change password from MD5 to DES.

Hi,

I have installed Fedora on a machine and forgot to uncheck the password
type so it was installed with MD5, but I need to transfer a password
file from another machine that used DES and I need both machine to use
DES.

I changed USEMD5 to "no" in /etc/sysconfig/authconfig and putting DES
password in the shadow files allows to login but if I use passwd to
change the password the new one is MD5. 

Is it possible to switch to DES without reinstalling everything?

Thanks,
    GiP
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