I must have been asleep when I tried it the first time. It took two
attempts to make it work this time:
1. Failed to observe that all characters between the : are part of
the password, even the " character.
2. Copied all characters between the : in the password of the shadow
file and it worked.
Thanks for all who replied.
Butch
At 10:31 AM 01/20/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> 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.
