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