On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:05:59PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Check carefully: I know that Debian starts its "real users" at user id > 500,501,502 ... . I'm not sure if Redhat uses the same numbering.
1000 for me... Mandr{iva,ake} starts at 500 or 501 I believe, most
others at 1000.
> If you are not careful, you get "real users" under RedHat which are
> "system/daemon users" under Debian or vice versa. Type shadowconfig
> off on the RedHat box - that leaves you with everything in /etc/passwd
> file. Migrate that. Edit as appropriate.
Surely the passwd file won't "just work" - it doesn't contain the salts
etc. to generate the password?
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Jon Dowland
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