Andrew Pattison writes: > Firstly, apologies for posting a non-OpenSolaris question here! > > The company I work for is migrating its main UNIX server from Solaris 2.6 to > 9 and we would like, if at all possible, to preserve users passwords, since > we would prefer to keep any disruption to our users to a minimum. Is there > any way to either migrate the passwords directly,
The password format hasn't changed. What would you need to migrate? > or alternatively decode the old password file so we can input them manually? No ... except for brute-force attack mechanisms (such as Crack), there's no "decode" mechanism for UNIX passwords. It's intentionally a one-way hash computation. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
