Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 --> 5.3)

[Walker, Michael]

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald J. O'Neill [mailto:donaldj1066 at fastmail.fm]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:48 PM
To: Walker, Michael
Subject: Re: Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 --> 5.3)


On Thursday 07 October 2004 02:54 am, you wrote:
> Do you know of any utilities that I can use to read through my
> existing /etc/master.passwd file and dump usernames and plain
> text passwords to a file?
> Or is the encryption of passwords one way??
>
> Sorry I'm not up on these things.
>
> Mick
>
>
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Hi Mick,

Well, I just looked at my email and I see an answer to your 
question. I was going to say that the passwords are one-way 
encrypted. Now, whether you could open /etc/master.passwd with 
vi/vim or some other editor, and use a cut and paste method for 
your users, I don't know if that would be successful or not. It 
might open a really big can of worms.

At this point in time, I would say, your best bet would be to save 
the master.passwd, group and any other files you feel would be 
necessary (useful), at least you have something to get information 
from. If I have to reinstall from scratch, the only thing I'm 
really concerned with is: /home doesn't get overwritten. With only 
two users, it's not a problem for me to just re-add the users, as 
long as I do it in the right order. With two users that's not 
difficult.

By the time 5.3 is released, there may be a method to upgrade 
everything

Don

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Donald J. O'Neill
donaldj1066 at fastmail.fm

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Hi Donald, 

Thank you for your reply.
/usr/home is mounted on a separate drive, so during the install process I
will just choose to leave this as it is, and reset the mount point for it.
I have asked users to back up their files off the system, and as this is a
non-essential system (It simply holds peoples outlook .pst files on the
network) I am not that bothered if I loose the data to be honest lol.

Just wondering though, does 5.3 have the same specifications for user
logins? i.e. If I copy the relevant user details over from my original
master.passwd and paste into the new one, edit /etc/login.conf to match my
existing one (user class and file size etc), and rebuild the database, will
they still be valid?

Thanks
Mick



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