Hi Raymundo, > > in MD5 $1$ is always present, the 8 char string that folows is > the salt and the last 22 chars is the encrypted password. What is this 'salt' thing?
> > For DES the first two char is the salt and the last 11 is the > encrypted password. > > and if both systems use the same encryption, just copying password > files should work fine. > > hope it helps > > raymundo > > nate wrote: > > > Bruno Negrao said: > > > >> Hi all, I have a redhat 6.0 running a radiusd server to authenticate my > >> RAS dialin users. > >> I'll deactivate this machine. > >> > >> So, I need to migrate this users to a redhat 8.0 machine, already running > >> with Qmail + Vpopmail. > >> > >> How to migrate all these dialin users from one machine to the other? If I > >> cut and paste the cryptographic password from the /etc/shadow file, would > >> it effectively copy the password? > > > > > > yes it will, I've done this many times. This will only work if both systems > > are using the same encryption type. The most common options are hash and > > MD5. The "format" of the password is significantly different between the > > 2 so it should be obvious whether or not both systems are using the same. > > MD5 typically has a lot of upper case characters and is much longer then > > crypt, maybe 20-30 characters, crypt is very short(maybe 10 tops). And while > > I haven't tried this it may work, if you need to revert from MD5 to > > crypt grep the files in /etc/pam.d and remove the 'md5' from them, on my > > redhat 7.3 system the only file that has it is system-auth, also looks like > > there is an /etc/sysconfig/authconfig file that would need to be changed too. > > > > nate > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
