/etc/passwd migration between systems
> As Jim Worthington said:
> >
> > I do know that when I tried to copy my /etc/passwd file from a Sun
> > system to Debian 1.1, the passwords would not decrypt correctly on
> > login.
Just another data point.... I just copied my passwords from my SVR4
Dell Unix system to Linux, and they worked fine. I didn't just copy
the /etc/passwd file because I wanted to preserve some of the default
logins that Debian gives, and I also had to snarf the passwords out of
/etc/shadow.
In the past, I have also copied passwords from HP-UX, Sun OS, and SGI
machines to my Dell machine, so I would say that all of these systems
must use the same format.
-wayne
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