On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:50:08 +0800 "Reynald I. Ngo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I migrated 400+ users from an old mail server to a new mailserver. Wrote
> a script to migrate all the users and used --stdin feature of
> passwd. Weird thing is, the first batch of users i migrated get
> authenticated with any word as the password... i then rewrote the script
> for some reason before i migrated the last batch and the last batch doesn't
> behave the same way. Now i'm trying to do it manually becuase i think this
> could be a great feature should anyone wants to migrate the users from an
> old box to the new box without figuring out how to sync the password from
> the old box to the new one then let the user change their own password
> through somesort. Anybody experienced this? How do it manually? Ahehehhe...
> weird! {=)
>
I've tried that before last two year ago, from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.1, my password
support shadow, so what I did is to copy /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to my RH7.1 box,
and it worked, all of them are authenticated without any hassle.
--
Jimmy Lim
Operation & Support Team Leader
IT Department
Tricom
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