Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 03:29:07 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Nicholas Merrill <nick@calyx.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980116032700.28150b-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199801151616.IAA06218@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nicholas Merrill wrote: > At 04:09 PM 1/15/98 +0100, you wrote: > >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? Get the crypto libraries from ftp.internat.freebsd.org. You'll need to write a little perl script which takes the Linux passwd file and shadow file, and creates a master.passwd file for FreeBSD. When master.passwd has been created, cd /etc ; /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd Then just tar up the user homedirs and untar them on the new machine. Danny
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