RE: [cobalt-users] shadow

["UKWebs" <sales@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

> It is worth trying to just enter the new users on the raq3 using the same
> password for each one, and then manually edit the shadow file cutting and
> pasting their passwords from the raq2 /etc/shadow to the raq3 /etc/shadow.
>
> I do not know that the two files use the same password encryption scheme,
> but if they do, then you don't need to know what the passwords
> are in order
> to copy them from one file to another.

This definitely *does* work as this is how we migrated our users from a RaQ2
to a RaQ3 :-)

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson
UKWebs Ltd, Web Hosting, E-Commerce and CGI Scripting
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