From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 09:51:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A5816A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from cah.talon.net (cah.talon.net [199.224.105.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8BB43D1F for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ssj@scottah.com) Received: from cah.talon.net (localhost.talon.net [127.0.0.1]) by cah.talon.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1PHm02B012427; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:48:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ssj@scottah.com) Received: from localhost (ssj@localhost) by cah.talon.net (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id i1PHm0r2012424; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:48:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ssj@scottah.com) X-Authentication-Warning: cah.talon.net: ssj owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:48:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Scott St. John" X-X-Sender: ssj@cah.talon.net To: Bill Vermillion In-Reply-To: <20040225140803.GD55351@wjv.com> Message-ID: <20040225124650.J12422@cah.talon.net> References: <200402251339.i1PDdc2B011071@cah.talon.net> <20040225140803.GD55351@wjv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:51:57 -0000 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