Re: accounts

["Ophidian" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

where to i look to see what encryption algo is being used for the shadow?

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Casey Boone wrote:
> > can i copy out the lines from each of those files pertaining to the
users i
> > want to migrate over?
>
> Yes.
>
> > now this should work on migrating accounts from one machine to another
as
> > long as both distros use shadow passwords?
>
> If it is Linux on both sides with the appropriate support for shadow
> passwords, MD5 passwords, etc., everything should work fine.
>
> You'll need to copy the appropriate entries from /etc/passwd,
> /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow.  Just make sure that none
> of the user or group names or ids conflict.
>
> Steve
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