Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:48:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Scott St. John" <ssj@scottah.com> To: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux Message-ID: <20040225124650.J12422@cah.talon.net> In-Reply-To: <20040225140803.GD55351@wjv.com> References: <200402251339.i1PDdc2B011071@cah.talon.net> <20040225140803.GD55351@wjv.com>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote: > If you don't find any scripts I found it was not that difficult > with vi, a little editing, and the using the cut and paste unix > utilities. It's basically putting the appropriate parts > from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, adding the two extra fields for > BSD, and then running the vipw on the completed file. > Since it was a one-time thing for me, but it was Irix to BSD and > the file format on both Irix and Linux passwords were the same, I > figured I could do it manually editing rather than take the time to > write a script. Bill- Thanks for the info, I might try this, what do I have to loose? This will be a one time conversion as well since I will not be using Linux any longer for email, etc. So it will be once, done and all new users will be added directly on the machine. Thanks! -Scott
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