Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration
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On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 01:13:18PM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-)
[...]
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group are still the last word in identities in these
> latter days of password shadowing and gawd alone knows what else?
>
> (My own research suggests the answer is YES for what users are on the
> system and NO for passwords. I'm not doing anything funky like using LDAP
> or anything for passwords, just what comes out of the box when you install
> Debian)
Yes, usually the encrypted passwords are in /etc/shadow (and in its dark
sister /etc/shadow-. Typically, if the password field in passwd is 'x',
the real thing is in shadow.
The gory details in 'man 5 shadow'
regards
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