On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2005 09:49 schrieb Jean-François Simon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>>> I want to upgrade my pc running suse 9.1 while keeping the > > >>>> user accounts. By upgrading I mean a fresh install on the / > > >>>> partition and > > >>>> keeping the user partition. > > >>> > > >>> just keep /etc/passwd. /etc/shadow and homes ;-) > > > > > > STOP! What about /etc/group? > > > And if you just copy the old passwd file, you will loose all > > > changed system users! > > > > 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.
JFYI -- passwords encrypted with different algorithms are different enough to figure out the algorithm used, and to process it correctly. Right now I have blowfish selected as a default, but still have a few users with md5-encrypted passwords. -- Best regards, Alexander. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
