howto migrate NIS account to IPA preserving user's passwords

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Thu Jul 12 18:59:28 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Tiziana Manfroni wrote:
> I download a howto from freeIPA site but it works with clear passowrd and
> I have md5 password.
> Do you have any idea?

It's probably best to ask on its own list (freeipa-users at redhat.com),
but you'll probably be asked if you mean that you're using md5-style
crypt() (example: "$1$salt$qJH7.N4xYta3aEG/dfqo/0") or actual MD5 (16
bytes of binary data, maybe in hex or base64-encoded form).

HTH,

Nalin


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