Hi-ho, An upgrade/side grade question..
I'm in the process of moving some services from a Redhat 7.1 based server, to Debian (Woody, stable, 2.4.*). I was hoping to not have to reset passwords, but I've discovered that the hashing is different in /etc/shadow bewteen the two distros/versions. I've got MD5 enabled on the Debian box, and whatever is default on the RedHat setup (MD5 I had assumed). I've come to this conclusion two ways, I copied and pasted a hash from the redhat onto a debian box, and couldn't log in with the good password, and if I set the password to be the same thing on both machines using passwd, I get different hashes.. Anyone know any tricks before I start informing users their passwords are about to change? :-). Cheers, Chris H.
