On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Matt Garman <matthew.garman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I've used "usermod -p <encrypted password> <username>" successfully many
> times.
>
> Just be careful with escaping of the '$' field separators that appear
> in the encrypted password string from /etc/shadow.
>
+1
A while back I wrote a script to migrate accounts and data for a home
system. Matt G. hit the major gotchas with escaping dollar signs.
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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:28 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I want to copy a few user accounts to a new system... is there a more
> > elegant way to copy /etc/shadow passwords other than editing the file?
> > for instance, is there some way I can give the password hash to
> > /usr/bin/passwd ?
> >
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