[Ashari]

I have upgraded my machine to Tiger, after backing up my Panther installation onto an external drive. I have a few users on the machine, and have been providing email and web hosting for them as a favor, and now I need to get them onto Tiger.

Is there any way to export/import the users and their passwords to the Tiger Netinfo database? I don't know their passwords, and it really would be a pain to get them set up again...

Thanks for any help!

-Steven

[chabig]

I don't know enough about NetInfo. I would just create new accounts for them and copy their stuff over. Then give them the new passwords you created and let them change them.

Chris

[Ashari]

Originally Posted by chabig

I don't know enough about NetInfo. I would just create new accounts for them and copy their stuff over. Then give them the new passwords you created and let them change them.

Chris

That was going to be "Plan B", but instead, I hit Google (for the 4th time) and actually found what I was looking for at this URL.

After looking at that script, I found that in Panther, I could do the following:
nicl . -read users/"username" generateduid

and the shadow password is stored in /private/var/db/shadow/hash/"generateduid". So basically, I just needed to create the user on Tiger, and take the output of:

cat /private/var/db/shadow/hash/"generateduid"

and put it in the user's shadow hash file on Tiger (using the same "nicl" command that I used in Panther to get the generateduid of the newly created user on Tiger).

Works like a charm.