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Re: New generation passwords



On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, support wrote:

> >> 
> >> I need a program to translate old stile shadow passwords (from 2.0.30)
> >> to the new format on 2.2.13
> 
> 
> >You mean a program that translates "crypt" hashes to MD5 hashes?
> >If you find such a program don't tell anyone you have it.
> >Regards,
> 
> 
> Well - after thinking about it for a while - you are right.
> 
> But - can anyone help me on how to move a big list of users from 2.0.30
> onto 2.2.13 without "adduser" for each user ?
> 
> adi
[snip]

Hi Adi,
There's absolutely no way to do it unless you have been using a user admin
tool from which you can recover clear text passwords. Most ISP's some such
tool. If you haven't been using this kind of tool your best bet is to
downgrade to the old password programs that use the old crypt hashing. I
don't think that the loss of security is that significant.
Regards,

 - yba

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