On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:31 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2005 09:49 schrieb Jean-François Simon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can I just copy and paste the regular users in the > > old /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group to the new one ? > > Hi Jean-François, > > only if you use the same method to crypt the passwords. Look in your > old /etc/shadow and compare the password field to the one in the > new /etc/shadow. If your old passwords use another encryption, you must > change the method on 10.0 via YaST. This only works if you use > "local(/etc/passwd)" for authentification.
Yes. I use local /etc/passwd for password encryption. So I guess it will work. Thank you for your input mdc ! Cheers Jean-François > -- mdc > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
