Could be, but like I said, don't quote me on that :) There've been so many different methods in the past few years, it's rough to keep the timeline straight. Either way, the original poster shouldn't have a problem using MD5 on SuSE to use the RedHat shadow file... Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Leendert Meyer [mailto:leen.meyer@home.nl] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:28 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] RedHat to Suse migration On Sunday 06 March 2005 00:39, Khanh Tran wrote:

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...

Blowfish? Isn't that the default password encryption method in SuSE 9.2? BTW, I'm not quite sure, but isn't the encryption method stored in the password *itself*? Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com