Re: copying user password to another machine

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 14:20 21 Jan 2004, Reuben D. Budiardja <techlist voyager phys utk edu> wrote:
| I have a user in a RHEL 3 WS. I want to give him access to another machine 
| running RH 9 and want to let him use the same password he uses for the RHEL 
| machine. But I don't know / don't remember his current password. Can I just 
| copy the line that contains his username in /etc/shadow in RHEL 3 machine, 
| and stick it to the /etc/shadow file in the second machine (RH 9) ? anything 
| else?

I'd just copy the crypt string field from that line (in case the other
fields differ in some important way). But yes, that's all you need to do.
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