[clue-tech] pwunconv

[Angelo Bertolli]

Mike Staver wrote:

>>> How long should the pwunconv command take?  I started it 5 minutes 
>>> ago on a dual AMD box running WBEL 3.0.  I'm simply trying to get 
>>> the passwords unshadowed so I can move them to a new box, and then 
>>> shadow them again.  I'm thinking something is wrong - and if so, how 
>>> do I stop this process without borking my /etc/passwd file?
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>> By the way, if this program is putting the passwords in to 
>> /etc/passwd itself instead of /etc/shadow I think it wont' be a 
>> problem to stop this midway, and just delete the passwords from 
>> /etc/passwd
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>> Hopefully it doesn't touch /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd at all, but 
>> rather creates a new file for you.
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> Apparently I misunderstood what this program is doing then... I 
> assumed it was just unshadowing the file so I could move - not 
> figuring out what the passwords are...

Oops, maybe you're right.  Sorry.  I thought you were trying to decrypt 
the passwords.  If it's just taking things out of /etc/shadow and 
putting them into /etc/passwd, it should be pretty fast.