On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:26:51PM +1100, Danny wrote:
> Currently
>
> Project :- Migrate from the Current Mail running RedHat 6.1 Server to the new
> server running RH 6.1
>
> The problem is : -
>
> 1) In the installation of RH6.1 making sure there is "NO" shadow passwords.
> 2) As soon as I installed RH 6.1 and did the following : -
>
> tail -f /etc/passwd
>
> It shows the shadow passwords even thought I made sure there was "NO" shadow p
> passwords during the installation.
>
> Question
> 1) How do I make sure there is NO shadow passwords so I can transfer users
> ato migrate to the new server?
>
> (I have made a mess of this project and I need a solution desperately)
>
If the new system is using shadow still, you could use the pwunconv utility
to merge the /etc/shadow back into /etc/passwd (check after doing this that
you can still login - ie keep a root shell logged in at all times). Also,
there is the authconfig utility which should disable shadow passwords.
Once you're happy that you can login using just /etc/passwd, and that passwd,
useradd etc all do the right thing in respect to not putting the encrypted
passwd into /etc/shadow, copy the /etc/passwd from the old system straight
on top of the new one.
I've not played with non-shadowed RH6.x so this is just advice, rather than
experience :)
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