From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 10:02:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27206 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:02:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andraste.sunflower.com (andraste.sunflower.com [24.124.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27188; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from isp@andraste.sunflower.com) Received: from localhost (isp@localhost) by andraste.sunflower.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA04205; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:04:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from isp@andraste.sunflower.com) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:04:36 -0500 (CDT) From: FreeBSD ISP Mailinglist To: Lee Reese cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web Server Linux to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35DB258C.41C67EA6@gwinnett.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Lee Reese wrote: > Hi. I'm in the process of converting our web server from Slackware > Linux to FreeBSD (Apache). We need a down and dirty way to transfer the > /etc/passwd file to a format the FreeBSD understands. Please resopnd > via e-mail. Thanks. > > Lee > I would format the password file to fit FreeBSD standards ( make sure to have the passwd file not be shadowed ). We had to do this from IRIX to FreeBSD so what we did was format the file using perl and put in all the used :: entries. Then run "vipw" on your FreeBSD machine. Do a Ctrl-R to read in a file and read in that file. Save and you've added all those users... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Wiles E-mail: ides@sunflower.com Asst. System Administrator Sunflower -- Datavision ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message