Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:14:51 -0500 From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> To: Victor Carranza <victorc@BitSmart.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help migrating from Linux Message-ID: <19990204121451.A7162@palomine.net> In-Reply-To: <36B9C4AC.3D627C1C@BitSmart.com>; from Victor Carranza on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:02:52AM -0600 References: <36B9C4AC.3D627C1C@BitSmart.com>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:02:52AM -0600, Victor Carranza wrote: > Hi! > > I am now working for an ISP-like institution. There is a machine here, > running Linux (RedHat 4.2, I think), which has all user accounts and > e-mail services, and I want to upgrade it to FreeBSD (the machine hangs > and crashes frequently). The only problem I have found is that password > files are NOT compatible between the two OS's... > > Is there any way to transparently migrate all users to the new system? I did something similar with a little bit of perl. Parse the Linux password file and pass the appropriate arguments to "pw useradd." You can set the password with "chpass -p." Be sure that you have the DES stuff installed on the FreeBSD box, so that the passwords are compatible. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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