Hi Jerry, Hi listreaders, ________________________________________ \|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, _________ Florian Verdet GnuPG: fvg.zapto.org/informatica/gpg.php _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list