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From: lukas@design.de (Lukas Wunner)
Subject: Re: Moving users in 2.1.7
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Hi,

> Is it possible to manually duplicate users from one 2.1.7 box to another running 2.2?  We are upgrading a system by installing new verisions on a different box and would like to just copy the users over without resorting to Kerberos or Radius.  I take it that just copying /etc/passwd and /etc/group won't work.

It works. Just make sure /usr/lib/libcrypt.* are symlinks to libdescrypt.* .
That library will grok both DES and MD5 encrypted passwords.

	Lukas.

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