SUMMARY: migrating passwords from ULTRIX 4.4, UPGRADE security to ENHANCED Digital Unix 3.2C

From: <"Mike>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:18:36 -0500 (EST)

I'd like to mainly thank Spider Boardman <spider_at_orb.nashua.nh.us>
for his detailed explanation about password encryption on Digital
UNIX vs. Ultrix, although that only tangentially helped with the
problem.

I called Digital support, and they stepped me through everything
again, and it worked. I think the critical difference was the change
in security levels. The Digital Unix "Security" manual says that you
must run secsetup before secauthmigrate. I recommend you run this
immediately before secauthmigrate. In other words, run secsetup,
select ENHANCED, reboot to single user mode, and then move the old
/etc/passwd and run secauthmigrate. I think the password file change
is important--I had already merged the password files when I changed the
security level, and I think that caused a problem. Even though I
tried to copy the username:ULT files, it still didn't work.

Thanks to all. Can I mention that I think this is one of the most
information-dense mailing lists I've ever been on?

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Mike Richichi, Systems Manager, Drew University Academic Technology
BC-COMPCEN, Madison, NJ 07940 +1 201 408 3840 FAX: +1 201 408 3816
mrichich_at_drunivac.drew.edu, http://daniel.drew.edu/~mrichich
Received on Mon Jan 29 1996 - 22:55:22 NZDT

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