Transfer hashed password from other system

[harro]

Hi all,

I would like to transfer a number of clients from 3.7 Ensim to DA and would like to know how to 'save' the user passwords in the process.

I have read some posts that suggest to copy-paste the hashed password into the DA /etc/passwd file and/or the /home/<user>/.shadow.

I tried this, but the password was not recognised when trying to log in afterwards.

Questions I have:

1 - do I copy-paste the password to these two files (only)?
2 - does this cover control panel, (web)mail, ftp and shell?
3 - how do I make sure these files are read (normally when logging in, isn't it? So I should not need to restart anything?)


Any experiences or thoughts are greatly appreciated, thanks!

Kind regards,

Harro

 

[nobaloney]

You should of course only copy the password part of the respective line. For the main domain account the password should be pasted into the /etc/shadow file between the first : and the second :, and for the virtual email accounts, etc., into the same position in the /etc/virtual/EXAMPLE.COM/passwd file (where EXAMPLE.COM should be replaced by the domain name).

I'm not sure what the /home/USERNAME/.shadow file is for, perhaps someone else will be able to tell us.

Note also that if you really pasted hashwords into the /etc/passwd file you should remove them and replace them with the lower case x character as they were originally, to ensure system security.

Jeff

 

[harro]

Thanks for you swift reply Jeff. I was a little hasty when I wrote /etc/passwd, I meant the shadow file (there are no passwords in passwd). Thanks for correcting me on that.

You enlightened me greatly by pointed out to me where I missed a beat: to modify the file in /etc/virtual/domain.com/passwd and not the one straight in /home/<user>/.shadow

Perhaps someone else can indeed explain what the purpose of that file is.

Thanks again,

Harro