From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 8 08:00:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17499 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:00:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from okjunc.junction.net (michael@okjunc.junction.net [199.166.227.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17464 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:00:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from michael@localhost) by okjunc.junction.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id HAA18166; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 07:51:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 07:51:52 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon X-Sender: michael@okjunc.junction.net To: Joe Beiter cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: password portability In-Reply-To: <199601080850.IAA15012@xioa.cosmic.org> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Joe Beiter wrote: > I would like to migrate a couple of linux systems doing authentication (Cisco > tacacs) over to FreeBSD 2.1. Does anyone know if there is any way I can port > over a passwd file (specifically the encrypted passwords) from Linux to > FreeBSD? My gut says "not in this quantum reality". I've done almost the same thing transferring a passwd file from Linux to a BSDI 1.1 system and it worked fine. You just have to be careful with the system accounts that are at the top of the passwd file, i.e. manual editting, but the encrypted passwords should work. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com