Re: Moving Users Passwords to Debian

[Butch Kemper <kemper@bihs.net>]

I must have been asleep when I tried it the first time.  It took two
attempts to make it work this time:

	1.  Failed to observe that all characters between the : are part of
	    the password, even the " character.

	2.  Copied all characters between the : in the password of the shadow
	    file and it worked.

Thanks for all who replied.

Butch

At 10:31 AM 01/20/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>> 
>> I need to move several thousand user entries from a Solaris 2.5.1 system to
>> a Debian system.  The problem that I have is to move the encrypted
passwords.
>> 
>> I have moved passwords between Debian systems by editing the passwd file
>> and using 'cut & paste".  When I tried "cutting & pasting" between Solaris
>> and Debian, it didn't work.
>
>I just tried from
>
>SunOS dino 5.5.1 Generic_103640-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
>(big fat SUN)
>
>to
>
>Linux pebbles 2.0.27 #2 Mon Sep 15 10:04:07 MET DST 1997 i586
>(debian bo)
>
>and it worked.
>
>Are you aware of the shadow settings?  If you are using them on debian,
>you would first run `shadowconfig off' to insert the passwords directly
>into the passwd file.  If shadow passwords are active on the SUN (I'd
>guess they are), you should copy the encrypted passwords from
>/etc/shadow.  Or you keep shadow passwords on in debian (`shadowconfig
>on'), and copy both the lines from the passwd and from the shadow file
>from the SUN.  If you are maintaining a system with so many users, be
>sure to use shadow passwords with debian.