Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
There's no way to convert the passwords automatically as the hashes used are not reversible by design (otherwise it would just be cheap obfuscation and add no real security).
Considering the old method seems to work just fine on FC10, what could I be breaking if I just do that? Do a clean FC10 install, then recover the pertinent files from backup, including that /etc/shadow file which has everyone's current passwords.
Sooner or later, everyone will have their password expire and it becomes a moot point, but till then, can I expect things to run fine?
Beware the use of the new password scheme if this is a NIS master server and you have any NIS clients that aren't RH/Fedora (recent) machines. I have a mixed bag of AIX, SunOS (8 and 10), and Linux (old RH and newer Fedora) and I had to force the use of the old password algorithms as SunOS 8 and older AIX can't handle the new scheme.
Kevin