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Re: New generation passwords



On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Alex Shnitman wrote:



 But it's usually more delicate than that. He'll need to backup the /home,
and you don't know (and neither do I) that it's on a different partition.
Now, upgrading a 2.0.30 kernel based system means RH 5.2 for example. I
don't know how well the upgrade from that libc5 based system works in 6.2,
to a glibc system, so he might wanna clear it all up, and install from
scratch, after backing up all the needed information....

--Ariel

> Hi Adi, nice seeing you here after all these years!
> 
> First, it doesn't matter what kernel you use. I suppose you want to
> upgrade an old Red Hat installation. The fact is that Red Hat still
> supports "crypt" hashes (it's actually an option in the installation,
> IIRC). So there shouldn't be any problem just copying the password
> file.
> 
> 
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