From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 13:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27692 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blues.jpj.net (benh@blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27666 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:00:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benh@blues.jpj.net) Received: from localhost (benh@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (backatcha) with SMTP id PAA22086; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 15:59:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 15:59:45 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Hockenhull To: MARK JONES cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd In-Reply-To: <34DB767D.5887@london.skyscape.net> 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Mark, As long as you make sure to install the descrypt libraries when you install FreeBSD, you should have no problems simply copying /etc/master.passwd to the new FreeBSD box and running pwd_mkdb to generate the hashed db files and /etc/passwd. The format of BSDi master.passwd and FreeBSD master.passwd is identical, assuming you are using DES crypt on FreeBSD rather than MD5 crypt. Ben -- Ben Hockenhull benh@jpj.net On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, MARK JONES wrote: > I am migrating from BSDI 2.01 to freebsd and wondered if there was an > easy way to transfer the passwdord file. > -- > Mark Jones > Regional Network Manager > Skyscape Communications London > `not all connections are created equal' >