Re: [suse-security] Migrating /etc/passwd from IRIX 5.3 to Linux

Basically you've got to find out what type of encryption your IRIX machine uses and install that same method of encyption on your linux machine. On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Yuri Robbers wrote:

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:54:03 +0200 From: Yuri Robbers To: "suse-security@suse.com" Subject: [suse-security] Migrating /etc/passwd from IRIX 5.3 to Linux

Hi,

I have an ancient Silicon Graphics machine here, running IRIX 5.3. Now this machine needs to be replaced, and I intend to replace it with a Linux box. As one of my compatibility experiments I tried copying a test password from the password field in the IRIX /etc/passwd to the password field in /etc/shadow on my own Linux box. Unfortunately I was not able to log in using this password. Does anyone know of a way to migrate my /etc/passwd from IRIX to Linux, so that all my users can immediately log into the new machine when it's installed?

Cheers! Yuri.

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