On 14:20 21 Jan 2004, Reuben D. Budiardja <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I have a user in a RHEL 3 WS. I want to give him access to another machine | running RH 9 and want to let him use the same password he uses for the RHEL | machine. But I don't know / don't remember his current password. Can I just | copy the line that contains his username in /etc/shadow in RHEL 3 machine, | and stick it to the /etc/shadow file in the second machine (RH 9) ? anything | else? I'd just copy the crypt string field from that line (in case the other fields differ in some important way). But yes, that's all you need to do. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Does your mother know you're on Usenet this late? - Rico the Masher, bpheintz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
