From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 22:25:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3005E106566C for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0848FC14 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:25:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n3GMPK1R027358 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3GMPKl5008384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3GMPIlO008375; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: gahn Message-ID: <20090416222518.GH90152@dan.emsphone.com> References: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:20 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd general questions Subject: Re: passwd file transfer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:25:22 -0000 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