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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now have </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred method </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">of managing user passwords so that their passwords will carry over to the new </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">installation? Should I set up a NIS server on the machine? Would that maintain</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">the passwords across the upgrades?</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Thanks.<br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p></body></html>