On Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:37:05 AM Genes MailLists wrote:
On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0102(a)verizon.net wrote:
> I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded
> to
>
> Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now
> have
>
> to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred
> method
>
> of managing user passwords so that their passwords will carry over to
> the new
>
> installation? Should I set up a NIS server on the machine? Would that
> maintain
>
> the passwords across the upgrades?
You could - or you could use LDAP (preferred but more complicated) or
the simplest is you could keep the user parts of
/etc/password
shadow
group
gshadow
and edit them back into the fresh install files.
Sorry about the HTML in the original post. I was forced to use a different mail
client that was I was unfamiliar with. Hopefully this is plain text.
I did save the password and shadow file, but it looks like the seed for the
hash function changes through the upgrade. I admit that I didn't try using old
files, though.