From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 22:26:19 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 66BB61065672 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBFB8FC13 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:26:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so642891ewy.43 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:26:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=CbvNAO1o8fcEpz80CS6S3sB1KAiU/6cozfzNP+kCyt8=; b=jXI+/AN55KJXoLvUY8FHZj9VJIAAsjHtGpNTSuRNhDJ0/ztuwnQ6w+6HMRpl4A3iJH C6L+deS5OXnQQll8wrDypdNcjNhFWmx8AszEmYX3CigtkD3s6GCQ0EYcV1Ymhwf5V0zT 8UKqI7r0eFPdJc1Fk4EbAWae4D/ZfIRvqEFio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tsGTiyFfdCQPd3Ye9U3kIyjApOzrHLLD++KWPw4cY2VP/EljjQv/VhCRTLzgBQ4gty h5p+vy6Oc9onhJH+GwTtVmh1sg+cN+0tNiWXgsprEHeqTMD03aniherRwutCOIxoU8co PI/O5UHr7zGNCYhPeNv+8KNLnTL9mtMVDFN3U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr2076830ebc.19.1239920778071; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:26:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:26:03 +0100 Message-ID: To: ipfreak@yahoo.com, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: passwd file transfer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:26:19 -0000 2009/4/16 gahn : > > Hi all: > > 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? > > > You *could* use some fancy awk | sed stuff to get passwords from your existing file and stick them in your /etc/master.passwd BUT it'd probably be far easier to just get users to recreate passwords. You should tell them to do this regularly anyway... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?