Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:58:00 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: MARK JONES <mjones@london.skyscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980206184424.1372A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <34DB767D.5887@london.skyscape.net>
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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.
Enable DES on the FreeBSD box and just copy /etc/master.passwd
/etc/passwd /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db from BSDI to the FreeBSD
box PROVIDED you don't have any usernames >8 characters on BSDI.
If you do you'll have to recompile FreeBSD to take the longer
usernames. In /usr/src/include/utmp.h change #define UT_NAMESIZE
from 8 to 16 and in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h change #define
MAXLOGNAME to be >= 16. I've been using 20 there.
make world, build a kernel, and reboot.
Been there, done that, so painless it doesn't even deserve a
T-shirt. :)
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