RE: [PHP] Export Linux Users and Password's to MYSQL database

2001-03-01 Thread Jason Beebe
Depends. say you are wanting to put the passwords from your servers passwd file, you would only be able to export the encrpypted passwords, since they are one-way encrypted. you will not be able to store plain text passwords in the db from your passwd file through importing it. if you want to do t

Re: [PHP] Export Linux Users and Password's to MYSQL database

2001-03-01 Thread Hrishi
On Thursday 01 March 2001 17:37, Joe Njeru wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way I can export the users in my Linux machine to a mysql > database. Together with their passwords without manually entering all of > them. the passwords are usually encrypted and stored in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow