Re: Way to migrate AIX accounts to LINUX (Redhat)?

From: Justin Bleistein (justin.bleistein_at_TOWERSPERRIN.COM)
Date: 11/21/05

  • Next message: Sebastien Roy: "Hummm... problem or it's me ?!" 
    Date:         Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:36:47 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Yes.. I'm assuming the salt password encryption method is standard Unix on
    Linux as it is on AIX.
    If so, then it should be ok.. Obviously avoid copying over "root"'s
    "/etc/passwd" file entry with this.
    The AIX command to do this is: "mrgpwd". It's usually used for NIS AIX
    environments. This command
    will take the encrypted passwords for each user account respectively, from
    "/etc/security/passwd"
     ,(AIX's password shadow file), and put them in "/etc/passwd", as they
    originally were in the older SYSV Unix versions.
    Then move that file to your Linux system. Then there is a Linux command. I
    don't really recall what it is. This command
    will take the old style: "/etc/passwd" password format, remove the
    encrypted passwords from "/etc/passwd" and put
    them into the correct format in Linux's password shadow file,
    "/etc/shadow". I apologize, I don't recall the command
    on the Linux side to complete it. That's basically the best way to do it,
    that I can think of anyway. Then again, I could
    be missing something from the Linux side internally. Obviously perform on
    a test system first, and keep your o/s
    boot cd handy in case of an emergency system break in.
    Thanks.

    --Justin Richard Bleistein
     AIX Systems Administrator

    bbb bb <mccux1@HOTMAIL.COM>
    Sent by: IBM AIX Discussion List <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
    11/21/2005 09:03 AM
    Please respond to
    IBM AIX Discussion List <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>

    To
    aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    cc

    Subject
    Way to migrate AIX accounts to LINUX (Redhat)?

    We are migrate our AIX servers to LINUX servers. I have questions about
    migrate user accounts.

    AIX does not have /etc/shadow file and password not compatible on both
    system.

    Does anyone has way or tool can handle this?

    Thanks.

  • Next message: Sebastien Roy: "Hummm... problem or it's me ?!"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: LINUX vs AIX
      ... AIX has the best LVM implementation on any platform I've seen to date. ... > really think that real kernel issues care about whether the code is on ... > top of any given hardware, ... As Linux advocate, ...
      (comp.unix.aix)
    • Re: LINUX vs AIX
      ... quite a bit has been done in AIX 5.xto support Linux ... I can implement many more Linux based servers dollar ...
      (comp.unix.aix)
    • Re: New User in need of quick lesson
      ... When I had to work on AIX I kept a sheet ... So a crash course on command line linux would be really helpful. ... You can install it by ...
      (Ubuntu)
    • Re: LINUX vs AIX
      ... Which concludes that AIX really is the only one to get it right? ... and what do you think is hardware dependent in this kernel ... >>really think that real kernel issues care about whether the code is on ... As Linux advocate, ...
      (comp.unix.aix)
    • Re: executing commands from telnet from D3
      ... to it from machine1, how in the world are you going to issue it a command to ... can the Linux box find the AIX box? ...
      (comp.databases.pick)