[TriLUG] how to unshadow

[Rob Huffstedtler]

On at least some versions of linux there is a pwunconvert command that
will unshadow passwords.  Haven't had to use it in something like four
years though, so that info may no longer be current.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Paul D. Boyle
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] how to unshadow
> 
> 
> > Quick one I hope - - - im in a pinch - how do I unshadow my passwd 
> > 	Is there a shell script - do I have to do it by hand - 
> or is there a 
> > passwd argument
> 
> I wrote a little (sort of lame) C program to do this for an 
> IRIX box I have.  You can ftp from, 
> 
ftp://ftp.xray.ncsu.edu/pub/irix/utils/pwunconv.c

compile it with -DLINUX in the gcc command line and you should be OK.

The code doesn't make any attempt to put exclusive locks on the files,
so if you are the paranoid type or your machine tends to have a lot of
users, run this code when you are in single user mode to be safe.

Paul

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