Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:32:33 -0300 From: Roberto Pereyra <rjpereyra@gualeguaychu.gov.ar> To: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux Message-ID: <20040226113233.GA30713@gualeguaychu.gov.ar> In-Reply-To: <1077751462.1159.4.camel@localhost> References: <200402251339.i1PDdc2B011071@cah.talon.net> <20040225141355.GA1519@outreachnetworks.com> <20040225124811.Q12422@cah.talon.net> <1077751462.1159.4.camel@localhost>
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Hi ! Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#passwd Is for Openbsd but works with FreeBSD. Roberto On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:24:22AM +1000, Mark Sergeant wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:49, Scott St. John wrote: > > Mark- > > > > I take it I run this directly on the BSD machine? I will give it a try > > and let you know how it works out. I will remove the system accounts from > > the Linux passwd file before I run the script. > > > > Run this script on the linux machine, then edit the output file to get > rid of the system accounts, once that is done scp that file across to > the bsd machine and you could simply cat filename >> /etc/master.passwd > && pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd . The reason this has to be run on the > linux machine is due to how it grabs the system accounts. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > THANK YOU! > > > > -Scott > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Mark Sergeant wrote: > > > > > -- Begin perl script -- > > > -- End perl script > > > > > > Should work well enough on linux as well. ohh and of course if you > > > intend to use it more than once drop in some error checking / catching, > > > something to remove the system accounts and of course "use strict" > -- > Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> > SNSOnline Technical Services
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