I'm busy moving from one raq to another. I just moved the site, created the users at the other raq but now, to avoid any problems, I want to transfer the passwords. The users have the same username. In which file are the passwords stored?

passwords are stored in /etc/passwords and /etc/shadow if you have shadow passwords installed. You may look around on the net for some utilitites to migrate password info.

Open the /etc/shadow file in your favorite editor, and look for the usernames. Each user will be listed like this:

username:blahBLAHblah:

The "blahBLAHblah" will be the encrypted password. You can then copy it and open the /etc/shadow on your new machine and paste it in there. Voila, the user now has the same password.