[Fedora-directory-users] Exporting MD5 Hash from FD-DS into /etc/shadow

[Mike Jackson]

dennis at demarco.com wrote:
> 
> I would like to export the MD5 hash from the Fedora directory user's 
> password attribute into /etc/shadow of a Linux machine not in LDAP 
> (Redhat).
> 
> It appears this isn't working, is there a way for me to do this? Not all 
> machines are using ldap but I would like to export from ldap.


Hi,
  I haven't tried this, but here's an idea just off the top of my head 
which _might_ work:


1. take away the {MD5} from the string

2. base64 decode the rest of the string

3. convert the string to hex

4. put the $1$ at the front of the hex string

5. put the whole string into the password field in /etc/shadow and test


If that works, you could write a perl script to automate the procedure. 
And report back to the list as well :-)


BR,

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mike