Re: Transferring users ( shadow and passwd files)

> server but when a user tries to pop retrieve is says -ERR passwd incorrect > even when the passwd is correct. The only way is to do a userdel and then > adduser again and this seems to fix the problem. maybe passwords are originally crypted with crypt and new machine uses config for md5 or the o

Transferring users ( shadow and passwd files)

I have recently had a system crash on one of our main servers, what we decided to do after the crash is have several machines doing a certain task each e.g one for mail one for webserver one for radius so on and so forth. The problem is, i have copied the shadow and passwd files onto the mail serve

Transferring users( shadow and passwd ) files

I have recently had a system crash on one of our main servers, what we decided to do after the crash is have several machines doing a certain task each e.g one for mail one for webserver one for radius so on and so forth. The problem is, i have copied the shadow and passwd files onto the mail serve