migrating from TRU64 to HPUX

[Atheer Tariq]

We have activated the Enhanced security features on Alpha 8400/Tru64 5.1B server for last few years. All the passwords are either 6 characters or up to 20 as per the enhance security features. Since there are 2000 users are on the /etc/passwd file, it is a bit concern to have all the users type the new password when they start to use the HP system.

As we are now moving to the HP-UX 11.11i system, it is becoming a bigger challenge to change all the passwords of the existing users to use the HP system.

Is there a possibility to convert the Tru64 Enhanced /etc/passwd file to the HP-Enhanced(Trusted) system password file so that the password on the Alpha system would be same to the HP system after the migration?

[Kasper Hedensted]

I don't know if there is an official way of doing this

I think my aproach would be to create the users on the HP-UX, and then get the "u_pwd" from the Tru64 system with "edauth -g username" and replace "u_pwd" in the /tcb/files/auth/*/username file on the HP-UX

I've just tried it and it worked on my test-server

Try with one user and if it works, then try and script it.

Cheers,

[Atheer Tariq]

couldn't get official solution or a tool yet.