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> I'm still planning to transfer all the stuff from my unsupported 8.1 > machine to my 9.1 (to be 9.2 when final) machine. > > The question I have seems likely to be well within the knowledge of this > group: > Has the method of hashing passwords changed between these versions or > can I expect to take the passwd, passwd-, shadow, shadow-, group, > group-, gshadow, and gshadow- (any I missed?) files from the 8.1 system > to the 9.1/2 system and still expect all the passwords to be the same > and recognized? Yes. Linux has, and will (for the forseable future) use MD5 password hashes. > > If not... any suggestions/migration apps? _Only_ copy users starting from UID 500. Do NOT copy the entire password file since that *will* change the UID's of some system accounts. Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gtR/Bn4EFUVUIO0RAg7NAKDZeeh38ZZuI9Ofuzv/y6PTtDMlLwCg3kUE 1Gaw1Dic1Qegc6YFvWpoDWg= =MzCX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
