Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:13:04 -0500 From: Nicholas Merrill <nick@calyx.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199801151616.IAA06218@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980115160554.10133A-100000@datorn.teligent.s e>
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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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