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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:53:12 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jakob Alvermark <jakob@teligent.se>
To:        Nicholas Merrill <nick@calyx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980115175138.10133C-100000@datorn.teligent.se>
In-Reply-To: <199801151616.IAA06218@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nicholas Merrill 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.
Aha? How? In what way?

> But I guess you can't do that from .se?
I don't know the rules for using DES. Anybody?

/Jakob Alvermark

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