Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:53:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@cray.com> To: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> Cc: Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web Server Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980820104938.117995A-100000@sooner> In-Reply-To: <13787.62792.159201.16202@neuron.webmore.de>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Malte Lance wrote:
>Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:53:05 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net>
>To: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@cray.com>
>Cc: Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
> freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Web Server Linux to FreeBSD
>
>Jeffrey Dunitz writes:
> > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Lee Reese wrote:
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:20:44 -0400
> > >From: Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>
> > >
> > >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.
> >
> >
> > I wish I could go into lots of detail here, but I can't.
> >
> >
> > So there's two example password entries, one from a standard unix password
> > file and one from a FreeBSD master.passwd. Note that freebsd has some
> > extra :0:0: stuff.
> > Also notice that the fields are separated by : characters.
>
>There is more than this. There is an essential difference
>between DES-encryption and MD5-encryption of passwords. Both
>is possible with FreeBSD. I don't know about Linux.
>So far there is no easy way to convert between DES- and
>MD5-encryption.
that's true; I thought of that right after I sent that mail.
yesterday or a few days ago, someone asked how to set up a FreeBSD machine
so that it would recognize DES passwords, but when the user changed it,
it would be encrypted with MD5. Look back a few days and you should find
the thread I'm talking about.
>
>BTW, Jeffrey, what version of FreeBSD are you running ?
2.2.6, thinking of going to 3.0.
>
>Malte.
>
> >
> >
> > You can use awk to spit out fields and arbitrary data:
> > cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1":"$2}'
> > just prints the first two fields with the colon. You have to quote the
> > colon like that, or it won't work right.
> > You can then figure out how to add in the extra ":0:0" stuff on your own.
> > Should be easy.
> >
> >
> > Note that there are some religious fanatics who would insist that the only
> > way to do this right is to use Perl. Other crazies will tell you that you
> > must use sed. I know how to do it with awk, and it took me about 45 seconds
> > to actually figure out how to do it. It would take me another 45 to actually
> > generate a working password file with the extra stuff in there. I don't know
> > if I could figure out how to make perl do that same thing. I'm not a perl
> > god. Your mileage may vary.
> >
> > >
> > >Lee
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
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