[TriLUG] Need to compare pw's

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Roy,

Would it be sufficient if you made all the passwords the same?  You
could simply pick on of the servers and make it the Master (so to
speak). Copy it's hash to all the other unix boxen and then you'll know
that all the pw's are the same across boxen.

You could also enable NIS logins and point everything to one Unix box.

I can't think of any other easy way of making sure the pw's were the
same... outside of using a pw breaking app on each server and then
comparing.

Good Luck - Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org>
Date: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:16 am
Subject: [TriLUG] Need to compare pw's
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>

> Folks,
>  I need to compare passwords among differing *nix boxes. I need to 
> verify the different hashes on the boxes and determine if they are 
> the 
> same or different. *I do NOT need to crack them!!*
> 
> Does anyone know a simple procedure on comparing 2 passwords using 
> the 
> hashes? I can sed/grep/awk whatever to get the hashes out of the 
> password files (names will *not* be given here for security 
> purposes), 
> but I'm not sure is a simple "if [ $a ne $b ] then..." will work.
> 
> TIA,
> Roy
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