Does anyone have a link to a howto on taking a /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow
and the group equivalents from a CentOS 5 to a CentOS 6 system. Working
on a customer hardware, op sys upgrade cycle. There aren't sooo many
user logins as to be impossible but it would be nice to copy them over
and
Certainly the password hash is different in v6 (longer hashes, presumably
more secure), the question is, can version 6 work with a version 5 shadow
file? I don't see /etc/passwd as a problem moving between the two versions.
Curt
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com
They should be portable, yes, although the reverse is not necessarily
true. The algorithm used for the hash is encoded as the first few
characters, so as long as there is library support for that hash (i.e.
it was not removed because the algorithm was shown to be insecure),
you should be fine.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly the password hash is different in v6 (longer hashes, presumably
more secure), the question is, can version 6 work with a version 5 shadow
file? I don't see /etc/passwd as a problem moving between the two
I have moved user and group information between a RH6 (yes, Red Hat 6, not
RHEL... the old stuff) and a CentOS 5 system. That same user/group info
was ported again from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6. What I did was simply move the
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/groups and /etc/gshadow file from one
On 06/21/2013 10:07 AM, Jon Moore wrote:
I have moved user and group information between a RH6 (yes, Red Hat 6,
not RHEL... the old stuff) and a CentOS 5 system. That same user/group
info was ported again from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6. What I did was simply
move the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
Howard,
I tend to stay away from webmin most of the time. I find it gets in the
way and causes more trouble then it's worth most of the time. However, in
this case, it proves to be useful. The import function is the Batch File
in the Users and Groups module under System.
A bit more detail on
