From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 13: 9:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2810337B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:09:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA60154; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:09:13 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200103052109.NAA60154@akira.lanfear.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tech@squid.tznet.com Subject: Re:SUN TO BSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It actually shouldn't be that hard to write a script to convert all the information-- except for the passwords themselves -- The encrypted version of a password that I have same across my Solaris 8 and FreeBSD 4.2 machines aren't the same. No idea how you'd convert those ... :( If you KNOW the plain text passwords, then you could easily write some scripts to add the accounts, and then just run "passwd". Otherwise, you could probably create the accounts, give them a default password and somehow communicate that privately to the users, and then have them go change it again ... of course, there might very well be a better solution as well .... marc. > ----------------------------- > From: Scott Pilz > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: SUN TO BSD > Sent: 03/05/01 14:53> > > > Does anyone know of a program, utility, or someone that knows code well > enough, to convert the SUNOS (5.7) password files to FreeBSD 4.0 password > files? > > Can this, has this, would this ever, be able to be done? > > We have a Sun box that has 10k users, it sucks. > > We want to switch from Sun and go to BSD all the way. > > Is this even possible? I don't want to type in 10,000 user's names and > passwords by hand. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message