\_ > \_ If you're using MD5 passwords in Linux' /etc/shadow,
\_ > \_ then you'll need to run "crack" on your old hashed
\_ > \_ passwords to convert them to cleartext, and...
\_ > 
\_ > But that'll be processor intensive and fail because all of the users
\_ > will have picked secure passwords, right?  :-)
\_ 
\_ Even if they weren't secure passwords, 

Actually, that was my point....  end users are not typically smart
about passwords.

David