Re: Current thoughts on system partitioning

From: Dave Brown (dhbrown_at_hobbes.dhbrown.net)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:41:01 GMT

In article <jam7c2-fn4.ln1@monrovia.whiteoaks.com>, Morris Jones wrote:
> ...
> Just to use my specific example, I've built a server with two 160 GB
> disks and installed SuSE 9.2 Pro using YaST2. ...
> ... I'm
> moving off of a RedHat-based server
>
> (Argh! I just realized my new server is using a different password
> encryption from the old one, and my users will have to recreate their
> passwords.)

In my experience, SuSE by default installs DES encryption for passwords,
whereas RH uses MD5. But after install, you can switch the SuSE to MD5
(using YaST), and any DES passwords will still work, although new ones
will be encrypted with MD5. And I'd expect previous encrypted MD5
passwords to work also once you've switched SuSE to MD5; did you try
that? 

-- 
Dave Brown  Austin, TX

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