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 > > > > to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred > > method > > > > of managing user passwords so that their passwords will carry over to > > the new > > > > installation? Should I set up a NIS server on the machine? Would that > > maintain > > > > the passwords across the upgrades? > > You could - or you could use LDAP (preferred but more complicated) or > the simplest is you could keep the user parts of > > /etc/password > shadow > group > gshadow > > and edit them back into the fresh install files.
Sorry about the HTML in the original post. I was forced to use a different mail client that was I was unfamiliar with. Hopefully this is plain text. 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. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
