[rhn-users] passwords: UNIX to Linux

[Dr. Guenter Schmidt]

Charith Perera wrote:

>I'm in the process of moving one of our servers from a machine running Solaris 
>to one running RHEL AS. How do I go about transferring all the users' 
>passwords onto the linux machine.
>
If the old passwords are in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow extract that field and use the old passwords as input to the useradd command:

useradd -u $uid -g $gid -p $passwd -d $home -s $shell -c $gcos  $login


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