From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 19:23:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ncweb.com (mail.ncweb.com [64.240.55.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3303737B417 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:23:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from monk.ncweb.com ([64.240.54.170]) by mail.ncweb.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2K3Ns607905; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:23:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from senmonk@ncweb.com) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020319222112.00a317a0@ncweb.com> X-Sender: senmonk@ncweb.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:22:15 -0500 To: lists@rhavenn.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Shaun Subject: Re: Migrating User Accounts from Linux to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200203192256.g2JMuRw0096888@smaug.rhavenn.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020319173622.00a32130@ncweb.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020319173622.00a32130@ncweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there anything that needs to be done to reload the passwd file into memory? If not then it didnt work. Do u have any other suggestions? Thanks, Shaun At 05:04 PM 3/19/2002 -0600, Henrik Hudson wrote: >If memory serves me right, depending on how the passwords are encrypted on >your PPC box you "should" be able to just copy the passwd field from your >shadow file and plunk them into your master passwd file on your BSD box. If >you have a lot of users this may be tedious, but should work if the password >was hashed using DES or MD5 . Of course, you probably want to change paths to >shells and homedirs, etc... as well. > > >On Tuesday 19 March 2002 16:41, Shaun wrote: > > Hello all- > > > > I have been searching through all sides of the internet trying to > find > > information on how to migrate the accounts. I have been to several list > > archives, google, the hand book and everything but haven't been able to > > find anything too helpful. > > > > I am trying to move user accounts from a LinuxPPC 2000 box to a FreeBSD > > 4.5. The problem on the linux box is that the pwdunconv program doesnt seem > > to work. The box is a bit crippled. (its an iMac, i know i know... not my > > choice.) Does anyone know how I could resolve this problem? > > > > Thanks for any and all help! > > > > Shaun Newcomer > > MHS SSA/Webmaster > > monk@mentorhigh.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message