From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 15 08:16:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06236 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mojo.calyx.net (mojo.calyx.net [208.132.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA06218 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:16:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@calyx.net) Message-Id: <199801151616.IAA06218@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 16553 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1998 16:16:32 -0000 Received: from kwesi.calyx.net (208.132.136.100) by mojo.calyx.net with SMTP; 15 Jan 1998 16:16:32 -0000 X-Sender: nick@calyx.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:13:04 -0500 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Nicholas Merrill Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:09 PM 1/15/98 +0100, you wrote: >Hello. > >I'm going to upgrade our mail/www-server. It's now running a very old >version of Linux, and on the new server I want to run FreeBSD. My >question is if there is an easy way of moving the user accounts from Linux >to FreeBSD? Can I just copy the password file and home directory? Or is >there some other way to do this? Any other things I should have in mind >when doing this? Someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe the trick to that is to use the DES crypto libraries. But I guess you can't do that from .se? Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Merrill 24 Hour pager: 917-381-0500 Voice: 212-965-0946 President / CEO http://www.calyx.net Fax : 212-292-7313 Calyx Internet Access 13-17 Laight St. NYC, NY 10013 Email: nick@calyx.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------