In a message dated: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:36:17 EST
Derek Martin said:
>Today, Kenneth E. Lussier gleaned this insight:
>
>> All,
>> Is the passwd files portable? In other words, can I copy passwd,
>> passwd-, group, group-, shadow, shadow-, gshadow, gshadow-, smbusers,
>> and smbpasswd from one system to another? I want to build a box but have
>> all of the same users/passwds on it as another system does.
>
>Yes! But with one caveat: you may have trouble if you don't have the same
>authentication configured on all hosts. For example, on RedHat, you can
>chose to use or not use shadow passwords, and you can chose or not chose
>MD5 passwords, or some combination of the two. If your target hosts don't
>have the same scheme, they will probably not work too well.
Yeah, if you use MD5 on Linux, there's no way it will work elsewhere if you
don't also use MD5 on that platform too. Take a look at an MD5 encrypted
password sometime. It's drastically different than a normal crypt()'ed passwd.
As far as smbpasswd files, I expect you should be okay, but keep in mind that
SMB based passwords may also have the systems SID mixed into the encryption,
and SIDs are obviously different from one system to another.
If you really need to move an smbpasswd file entry (and not the whole file)
you're probably better off moving the /etc/passwd file entry and recreating
the smbpasswd file entry from that.
Of course, you can always just try all this stuff and report back to us what
works and what doesn't :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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