From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 19:46:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18451 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA28478; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:46:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:46:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: pstewart cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Username Lengths In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, pstewart wrote: > Does this mean that if I install the latest version that I won't have any > headaches and can just convert over our users from our linux boxes? You should have less headaches in the conversion; I'm saying *nothing* about the setup. :) > BTW, does anyone know of a simple utility that will read a shadowed > password file from a linux box and convert it to users on a freebsd box > including autocreating /home directories etc. etc...? I recall seeing some Perl scripts go flying by. See the questions archives at http://www.freebsd.org/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message