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Will password still be the same if I copy password file from other machine.

  • 1.  Will password still be the same if I copy password file from other machine.

    Posted Thu June 06, 2013 07:49 PM

    Originally posted by: Babba


    Hi All,

     

    I'm trying to find out if I copy password file from live system to test system will the same password work?

    I knew that this is work for the default "crypt" encryption algorithm but I am looking to change this to sha512.  I am not sure what seeds the sha512 algorithm used. If it is something specific to a machine then it wouldn't work if I copy it to use on other machine, right? Other wise I will have to look for a way to reset all passwords which can be messy. 

    Both live and test  system are  AIX 7.1 and now using crypt. I'm trying to change it to a more secure sha512 but need to be sure that the same password will work on both system.

     

    Any idea?

     

    Thanks

     

     

     

     


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  • 2.  Re: Will password still be the same if I copy password file from other machine.

    Posted Tue June 11, 2013 06:05 PM

    Originally posted by: dukessd


    Idea!

    Create a test user on both systems

    Copy the password across

    See if it works

    Let us know the result

    How hard is that?

    HTH


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  • 3.  Re: Will password still be the same if I copy password file from other machine.

    Posted Tue June 11, 2013 06:06 PM

    Originally posted by: dukessd


    Oh, and, of course it will not work...

    HTH ;0)


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