Password conversion from OpenBSD to Linux

Tapio Väättänen · *nix forums beginner Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Hello,

I'm running OpenBSD 3.5 with few services which I'd like to keep up
and running all the time. When I need to do HW upgrades or other
maintenance tasks which requires downtime, I switch all services to
a Linux box. To be able to keep all services running for all users,
I have the same user base on Linux machine that I have on OpenBSD
box.

So, my problem is, that I don't know how to convert the passwords from
OpenBSD to Linux. Just copy pasting the password from /etc/master.passwd
to /etc/shadow doesn't work. I couldn't find any information about
conversion from FAQ either. There is section about converting passwords
from Linux to OpenBSD, but it just doen't work the other way around

Thanks for any suggestions.

BR,

- Tapo
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Dave Uhring · *nix forums Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 973

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:33:06 +0000, Tapio Väättänen wrote:

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