> > I need to move several thousand user entries from a Solaris 2.5.1 system to > a Debian system. The problem that I have is to move the encrypted passwords. > > I have moved passwords between Debian systems by editing the passwd file > and using 'cut & paste". When I tried "cutting & pasting" between Solaris > and Debian, it didn't work.
I just tried from SunOS dino 5.5.1 Generic_103640-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise (big fat SUN) to Linux pebbles 2.0.27 #2 Mon Sep 15 10:04:07 MET DST 1997 i586 (debian bo) and it worked. Are you aware of the shadow settings? If you are using them on debian, you would first run `shadowconfig off' to insert the passwords directly into the passwd file. If shadow passwords are active on the SUN (I'd guess they are), you should copy the encrypted passwords from /etc/shadow. Or you keep shadow passwords on in debian (`shadowconfig on'), and copy both the lines from the passwd and from the shadow file from the SUN. If you are maintaining a system with so many users, be sure to use shadow passwords with debian. > Is it possible to move the passwords by doing some form of "bit shifting" - > converting between little "indian" and big "indian"? If so, can someone > tell me the procedure? There are no native Americans involved here, it is about `endian'-ness. :) Judging from my experiment you should not need to fiddle with that. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
