Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: passwd file transfer Message-ID: <20090416222518.GH90152@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 16), gahn said: > we have a linux based system and it will be replaced with freebsd based > system. but i would like to reuse users' password. is there any better > way to do this? There's an awk script at the bottom of the passwd(5) manpage that will convert a non-BSD passwd file to BSD's master.passwd format. Make sure you run pwunconv on the Linux box to merge your passwords from /etc/shadow back into /etc/passwd before running the awk script. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=passwd&sektion=5 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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