Passwords generated on SUSE don't work on RedHat

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From: rhn-users-bouncesredhat.com on behalf of Per Lindahl
Sent: Thu 11/9/2006 08:42
To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Passwords generated on SUSE don't
work on RedHat



SuSE has in the past truncated their to eight symbols per
password this
effects the password hashing. It could be your problem.

//Per
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 13:27 -0800, Rigoberto Corujo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I copy the encrypted password from
"/etc/shadow" on
> the SUSE box and paste it to "/etc/shadow" on
the Red
> Hat box, then I can't log into the Red Hat box.
> However, if I copy an encrypted password from
> "/etc/shadow" on the Red Hat box and paste it
into
> "/etc/shadow" on the SUSE box, I can log into
the SUSE
> box just fine.  I've noticed that encrypted password
> on SUSE is twice as long as the encrypted password on
> Red Hat.
>
> This all has to do with a problem I'm tracking when
> the NIS master is on SUSE and the NIS slave is on Red
> Hat.
>
> What is the difference in the way that SUSE encrypts
> passwords versus the way Red Hat encrypts passwords
> and why does a Red Hat encrypted password work on
> SUSE, but a SUSE encrypted password doesn't on Red
> Hat?  Any idea on how I can begin to troubleshoot
> this?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Rigoberto
>
>
>
> 
>
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