Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

["Khanh Tran" <khanh@xxxxxxx>]

I've done lots of RedHat to SuSE migrations, all maintaining passwords.
The new versions (I believe starting with 8) use MD5.  I think the 7
versions used Blowfish, but don't quote me on that...


Khanh Tran
Network Operations
Sarah Lawrence College



-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 4:40 PM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] RedHat to Suse migration

Scorpy wrote:
> Yeah...but thats the easy solution.
> I need (as i said) the old passwords.

Regardless of how you upgrade, you'll be in the same situation WRT
paswords.  SuSE can either read them or it can't.  Either way, what's
more important, is maintaining the user IDs.  This info is contained in
the password files.

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