[Tfug] Migrating users....

[Zack Williams]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Chris Hill<chris at enemyhideout.com> wrote:
> I'm migrating a large number of users (45) from one machine to another. I
> have been told by the sysadmin of the new machine that the old passwords
> won't work on the new machine because the hash of the pass in /etc/shadow
> uses a machine-specific seed that won't be on the new machine. I haven't
> done this in a loooong time but I don't think I've had this problem before.
> Is this going to be an issue?

Depends greatly on your source/destination OS and the format of the
password files.  What are you going from/to?

Is there a reason you're not using a centralized directory system (LDAP, etc.)?

- Zack