Re: solaris md5 password authentication

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Hi Jerry,
Hi listreaders,
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\|Jerry Bonner <Jerry.Bonner@cpinternet.com> ha scrit als Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:05:55 -0600:
 |this is my first post to this list, I'll start off by saying I'm glad to
 |have found it, being that it looks more active than some other resources I
 |have found.
 |
 |here's what I'm trying to do, I'm not sure if it will work the way that I
 |might want but here goes : I need to migrate users account from a redhat box
 |to a Solaris box ( I realize this should be the other way around...), but I
 |would like for them to be able to keep their passwords intact since I have
 |to migrate *alot* of users. Sooo, I'm hoping that I can copy the passwords
 |from the redhat box (MD5 encrypted I believe) to the Solaris box (which uses
 |DES I believe, I'm not too familiar with Solaris) and have the Solaris
 |machine be able to understand the md5 passwords as well as native solaris
 |ones.

have you checked out the possibilities of pw(un)conv ??

>From its manpage:
----------$ man pwconv ----------
PWCONV(8)                                                            PWCONV(8)

NAME
       pwconv, pwunconv, grpconv, grpunconv - convert to and from shadow pass-
       words and groups.
[...]
DESCRIPTION
       These four programs all operate on the normal and shadow  password  and
       group files: /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow.
[...]
SEE ALSO
       login.defs(5), pwck(8), grpck(8), shadowconfig(8)

                                  26 Sep 1997                        PWCONV(8)
--------------------------------

I never used it, but crossed over it because I've also some troubles with MD5 passwds (improving the pam_mysql module...)

 |
 |>From what I've gathered I need to compile a pam module and insert into the
 |pam.conf authentication stack. I took a guess and tried to compile just the
 |pam_unix module, I had some trouble doing this :
 |
 |[...]
 |
 |Jerry Bonner
 |----------------------------------
 |jerry.bonner@cpinternet.com
 |
 
just a little guess and I hope that may be what you're looking for...

sincerly,
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Florian Verdet
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