Re: [cobalt-users] Usernames & passwords

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Martin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am moving sites from one Raq4 to another one, including usernames, email
> settings, etc etc etc. Instead of copying postgresql databases and other
> files, I manually re-created everything through the Cobalt GUI.
> There's one thing I cannot re-create: passwords. One thing I could do, would
> be to hand out new passwords to all users, but this not an option. Is there
> any way of finding out what a user's password is? And if I can't because the
> passwords are encrypted, is there any way of adding encrypted passwords
> instead of plain passwords?
>

You might try copying the line for each user from from /etc/passwd to
/etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow to /etc/shadow...

Not sure this will work, never tried it.
I always used the CMU to move vsites.

Gerald
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