On Sat, 30 May 1998, John Plate wrote: : Hi : : I've noticed that the SAME password on two different Linux systems are : encoded differently so that if user "xxxx" uses password "pppp" on two : Linux systems, the encoding is different in each /etc/shadow file. : : This implies that in case of a crash, user accounts cannot easily be : moved to another machine. : : Any advise will be appreciated. : -- : John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No, this is a feature. You can indeed cut and paste the encrypted password field from one box to another - I've done this several times. However, the `passwd' command chooses a random salt when it hashes the password entry so that they do NOT look the same. Admittedly, this was more of an issue before shadow passwords existed; it was an attempt to make it non obvious that two encrypted passwords were indeed the same. I hope that makes sense :) Your concerns about moving accounts are unfounded. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
