From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 5: 4:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1D71587F for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 05:04:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA20102; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:05:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA10171; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:04:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id IAA73853; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:04:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199905061204.IAA73853@lakes.dignus.com> To: bokui@sin.photronics.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transfer user accounts In-Reply-To: <37320778.8C56DB90@sin.photronics.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi Gurus, > I'd like to move hundreds of user accounts from an old SunOS 4.1.3 > machine to my FreeBSD 3.1-stable PC. How can I do that? I'd like to keep > all the old passwords so that the users don't need to key-in again. > > I can do that in Linux but I prefer FreeBSD... Any suggestions? > > TIA, > Bokui > If you're using DES on FreeBSD - it should be straight-forward to write a shell/perl/awk script to do the transformation from the SunOS /etc/passwd to /etc/master.passwd format. - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message