Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> There's no way to convert the passwords automatically as the hashes >> used are >> not reversible by design (otherwise it would just be cheap >> obfuscation and >> add no real security). >> > Considering the old method seems to work just fine on FC10, what > could I be breaking if I just do that? Do a clean FC10 install, then > recover the pertinent files from backup, including that /etc/shadow > file which has everyone's current passwords. > > Sooner or later, everyone will have their password expire and it > becomes a moot point, but till then, can I expect things to run fine? > Beware the use of the new password scheme if this is a NIS master server and you have any NIS clients that aren't RH/Fedora (recent) machines. I have a mixed bag of AIX, SunOS (8 and 10), and Linux (old RH and newer Fedora) and I had to force the use of the old password algorithms as SunOS 8 and older AIX can't handle the new scheme.
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