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
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