Today, Kenneth E. Lussier gleaned this insight:
> All,
> Is the passwd files portable? In other words, can I copy passwd,
> passwd-, group, group-, shadow, shadow-, gshadow, gshadow-, smbusers,
> and smbpasswd from one system to another? I want to build a box but have
> all of the same users/passwds on it as another system does.
Yes! But with one caveat: you may have trouble if you don't have the same
authentication configured on all hosts. For example, on RedHat, you can
chose to use or not use shadow passwords, and you can chose or not chose
MD5 passwords, or some combination of the two. If your target hosts don't
have the same scheme, they will probably not work too well.
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