Upgrading Solaris versions won't touch the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file, so
you should be fine.
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Sorry - I worded that badly. We're actually moving over to a completely new
machine. Also, our existing system doesn't use shadow passwords - the passwords
are stored directly in /etc/passwd. Can I simply copy the relevant lines from
/etc/passwd to the new machine then?
Thanks
Andrew.
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Brett Albertson wrote:
Upgrading Solaris versions won't touch the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file, so
you should be fine.
Not quite true. Upgrade can change those files, I know I've written
some of the code that does it! However it won't (modulo bugs in the
code I wrote and others evolved)
Andrew Pattison wrote:
Sorry - I worded that badly. We're actually moving over to a completely new
machine. Also, our existing system doesn't use shadow passwords - the passwords
are stored directly in /etc/passwd. Can I simply copy the relevant lines from
/etc/passwd to the new machine then?
Andrew Pattison writes:
> Sorry - I worded that badly. We're actually moving over to a
> completely new machine. Also, our existing system doesn't use shadow
> passwords - the passwords are stored directly in /etc/passwd. Can I
> simply copy the relevant lines from /etc/passwd to the new machine
>
>Sorry - I worded that badly. We're actually moving over to a completely new
>machine. Also, our exi
sting system doesn't use shadow passwords - the passwords are stored directly
in /etc/passwd. Can I
simply copy the relevant lines from /etc/passwd to the new machine then?
>
You can't have no
