Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 16:20 +, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: > >> I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to > >> > >> Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/12/11 16:20, mike cloaked wrote: but if the user base grows and > there are many more machines it would become desirable to move to a > central user auth system - like LDAP - in the past I have tried to > look through the documentation with a view to implementing an LDAP > scheme - such as

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: >> I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to >> >> Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now >> have >> >> to reset their pas

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/10/2011 10:44 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: > > I did save the password and shadow file, but it looks like the seed for the > hash function changes through the upgrade. I admit that I didn't try using > old > files, though. The old hashes are still supported - tho you could encoura

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread johnc0102
On Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:37:05 AM Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: > > I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded > > to > > > > Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now > > have > > >

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: > I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to > > Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now > have > > to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred > method

Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread johnc0102
I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now have to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred method of managing user passwords so that their passwords will carry