Re: Password Migration

[Caylan Van Larson <caylan@cs.und.edu> (by way of Jason Joines <joines@joines.okstate.edu>)]

Jason,

Quick note, not full solution:
These values are base64 encoded.  It is best to use libraries built
 into other languages, perl or php have worked for me.

Caylan Van Larson
Unix Administrator - Systems Team Member
University of North Dakota (Aerospace College)
caylan@cs.und.edu
701-777-6151 (work)

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Jason Joines wrote:
>      I am trying to authenticate all my Linux and Samba user
> authentication to LDAP.  All works fine when I add new users but how
> to I add existing users without changing their passwords?
>      I tried copying the values from /etc/shadow and /etc/smbpasswd
> to the values in userPassword, lmPassword, and ntPassword but this
> doesn't work.
>
> Jason Joines
> Open Source = Open Minds
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