Re: [Q] how to migrate user account from AIX for LINUX?

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 15:21:58 EDT


if you were on 5.1, you could use ldap...how about this...set the aix
box up as an nis master, the redhat as an nis slave, then do a
yptransfer to the slave server. You can then make the redhat box an nis
server for itself...

Mills, John T (9814) wrote:

>I think the challenge would be the shadow file. RedHat can be
>configured to use the same general scheme as the AIX default,
>but I don't think you can shuffle the encrypted passwords from
>AIX to Linux. The /etc/passwd format itself should be identical.
>
>John T. Mills
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>We have AIX 4.3.3 on RS/6000. We plan to setup another application server
>on DELL/Redhat AS 2.1 server. Does anyone know how to migrate user account
>(ID/Password) from AIX to LINUX?
>
>Thanks.
>
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