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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, interrupt request wrote:

> I am switching to FreeBSD 2.1.7 from Red Hat Linux 4.1....is there some
> sort of an easy way of doing this? Or do I have to completely repartition
> and reformat? And, if so, I am running shadow on my current system. Does
> FreeBSD come shadowed? If so, is it compatible with my /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow? Thank you....

FreeBSD passwords aren't in /etc/passwd, they're in a db.  You need to
repartition, but maybe someone on the list can give you advice on
importing passwd and shadow.

Regards,


Mike Hancock