Re: [cobalt-users] 2 RaQ 550 Questions

["Chris L" <clathem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Finally the company I work for is going to migrate its mail server to a
> Cobalt RaQ 550.
>
> First: Is it possible to somehow import shadowed passwords (and there
> users) from an other linux system?

I've never tried importing accounts from one box to the other, but you can
crack the passwords and then recreate the accounts on the new system.

Here are some quick steps if you are using shadowed passwords (which you
should be):

wget http://www.openwall.com/john/dl/john-1.6.tar.gz
tar xzf john-1.6.tar.gz
cd john-1.6
cd src
make linux-x86-any-elf
Then as root cd to the /john-1.6/run dir
unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > passwd.txt
chmod 600 passwd.txt ( to keep prying eyes out)
./john passwd.txt

John will go to work cracking the passwords for you. Depending on complexity
of passwords, this can take anywhere from minutes to hours or longer to
retrieve all passwords.

Good Luck,
Chris Lathem