SUMMARY: NIS to NIS+ Transition

From: Rob Beverly (rbeverly@eiffel.ce.gatech.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 15 1995 - 12:39:31 CDT


Original Question:

>After I manually gave the users new passwords, everything works great.
>How can I get these passwords moved over?

Answer:

nisaddent -d -t passwd.org_dir shadow >passwd.shadow

Then copy the old encrypted passwords into the password fields in the file
passwd.shadow

nisaddent -p -m -f passwd.shadow -t passwd.org_dir shadow
                                                             
At our site we had been only using the password file, instead of placing
an "x" and using the shadow file. Therefore the above works great.

Thanks to:
mel@maths.abdn.ac.uk
dmcmilla@engr.soltech.com

rob

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