From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 15 08:49:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09487 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from teligent.se (iservern.teligent.se [194.17.198.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09482 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jakob@teligent.se) Received: from datorn.teligent.se (datorn.teligent.se [192.168.2.31]) by teligent.se (8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA11284; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:48:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:53:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jakob Alvermark To: Nicholas Merrill cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199801151616.IAA06218@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA09483 Sender: owner-freebsd-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nynäshamn, Sweden Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36 Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57