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Re: migrating from (old) /etc/shadow to LDAP



On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:57:29PM -0300, Gerardo Herzig wrote:
> Hi all. Im migrating the /etc/shadow accounts to an LDAP enviroment.
> 
> As the /etc/shadow containing server has suffered several upgrades,
> there is more than one crypto mechanism applied.
> 
> Some entries are in the form $2a$10$..... this is an {CRYPT} entry, and
> have no problems with that.
> 
> Others (the oldest ones) doesn't seem to have a prefix at all. There are
> "short" strings like 
> bHwTgdCTnfpco
> lJvWLr8sfW.Hg
> and so on...
> 
> I tried with {MD5}, {SHA} + encrypted password with no luck.
> 
> Any one knows which crypto mechanism is applied here? I think they are
> from an old Suse 9.1 (not the Enterprise Server Edition, the realy old
> SuSE 9.1)

They look like plain crypts, of the original {CRYPT} kind.
 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gerardo
> 
>