Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:00:18 -0600
From:      "John M. Fannon" <jfannon@gmotion.com>
To:        <monk@mentorhigh.com>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: User migration problems again...
Message-ID:  <B8BFA601.9D5%jfannon@gmotion.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203211831.g2LIVsa24112@www.mentorhigh.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 5/9/41 12:31 PM, "monk@mentorhigh.com" <monk@mentorhigh.com> wrote:
     ^-set your date please!

> I appreciate all the help I have gotten so far. I am trying to move users from
> a 
> LinuxPPC box to 4.5. I have managed to add entries to the master.passwd file
> and 
> run the command 'pwd_makedb' ok, but it won't let me do it for the passwd
> file. 
> It gives me an error on line 3 which is the root line which is the following:
> 


> root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash
> 
> Is there anything wrong with that?

Looks like a shadowed password file (no FaEhbRwVBew stuff where the * is.)
> 
> Also the passwords don't work either for the users that I have migrated. Is
> this 
> an encryption problem or am I doin something else wrong?

Well, if you have '*' in place of the needed passwords, they will obviously
not be known to BSD (or anything/one for that matter)


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?B8BFA601.9D5%jfannon>