Migration help!!

[Z3n]

So checking out my ftp server (SuSE 9.2) the other day and I perform an ls -la command and get this:

ftp:/home/bob # ls -la
/bin/ls: unrecognized prefix: do
/bin/ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
total 121231
drwxr-xr-x 10 bob users 632 Aug 10 15:21 .

Uh, no... run chkrootkit and rkhunter and get the nasty news. Box has been comprimised... Happened to you, happened to me and not real happy about it.

Needless to say 3 months on the job and I have been running into all kinds of issues of out-of-date OSs and the like. No thought towards security at all. So I am in the process of moving all our servers to Debian.

Problem is I get the new box setup and I want to migrate our users from SuSE 9.2 to Debian 4.0. I copy over the user accounts from /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow. Problem is the passwords don't work unless I reset it within a Debian shell.

Any chance anyone has some neat trick out there so I don't have to spend the weekend re-entering passwords so they work? I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

[iwanabeguru]

hi

If it possible generate a new random password for every users and than they change it.

so it's not the solution , but more simple.

Edit1:

I think it isn't possible any other way, because the "salt" is different in every unix system.
It generated randomly , and you can not figure out it, salt is given to the key when the hash of password generated.

[Z3n]

Thanks for the response. I thought was fairly certain that this was going to be the answer but I wanted to check first before going through it all.

Thanks.