On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also, It appears that RHE3 and RH72 use different hashing functions for
> the /etc/passwd file (I created a root user on the RHE3 box and compared
> the hash to the RH72 box and they are different.) I suppose this means I
> cannot simply copy over the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files to move the
> users over. Anyway to convert between the two?
They're probably not different. Each time you change your password, the
system selects a random salt which is combined with the password before
hashing and saved in the clear before the password hash. Its purpose is to
prevent exactly what you just tried - hashing every word in a dictionary to
see which hashes match up. With salt, you'd have to hash every word with
every possible salt.
Copy the entry from one system to the other and see if you can still login.
-J
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