On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:43:20PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > in a few weeks I need to convert a couple of hundred userids > from a Sun Solaris 5.8 box to Linux-Debian. > > Does anybody know of a way to do this without the users > losing their passwords? Some awk/sed/perl/python magic to extract the hashes from the old passwd and to add it to the new passwd file. Shouldn't be too hard but you need to take care of the uid.
So I would readd the user on the new Linux system with the same uid or the same user name like they had on the SunOS system and then merge the password hashes into the shadow file. Sven -- It ain't so bad bein' alone if you know it'll never last nothing lasts forever 'cept the certainly of change and love's the same It's a game with simple rules If you think it's forever then you're nothing but a fool [Venerea - Love Is A Battlefield Of Wounded Hearts] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
