[rhn-users] passwords: UNIX to Linux

[Doerbeck, Christoph]

The long shadow passwords are md5 encrypted I believe.
Where as the short form common to Solaris is DES(?).

MD5 is generally regarded as a stronger cipher.  Use it
if you can, but both should work as the glibc crypt routines
auto detect which to use.

- Christoph

-----Original Message-----
From: Charith Perera [mailto:cperera at intertechmedia.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:34 AM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] passwords: UNIX to Linux


Dr. Schmidt,

Thanks, I didn't notice the -p switch earlier.

Providing the cryptic password worked. However, when I look at the /etc/shadow 
file the encrypted passwords created on the Linux machine are much longer 
than those copied over from the Solaris box. Any idea why this is and where I 
can get more info regarding it.

Thanks,

Charith Perera


On Wednesday 13 October 2004 11:11 am, Dr. Guenter Schmidt wrote:
> Charith Perera wrote:
> >I'm in the process of moving one of our servers from a machine running
> > Solaris to one running RHEL AS. How do I go about transferring all the
> > users' passwords onto the linux machine.
>
> If the old passwords are in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow extract that field
> and use the old passwords as input to the useradd command:
>
> useradd -u $uid -g $gid -p $passwd -d $home -s $shell -c $gcos  $login
>
>
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