From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 7 15:39:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9F216A400 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 15:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lisa@jellico.com) Received: from mail.jellico.com (mail.jellico.com [207.191.185.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6F713C4B8 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 15:39:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lisa@jellico.com) Received: from lisac (lisa.jellico.com [207.191.185.213]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.jellico.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l67FcxBX014322 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:38:59 -0400 Message-ID: <003701c7c0ac$f7a6f350$d5b9bfcf@lisac> From: "Lisa Casey" To: Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:39:11 -0400 Organization: Netlink 2000, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 127.0.0.1 Subject: passwd file and user accounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:39:40 -0000 Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway... I have a Red Hat Linux system I need to get rid of. It is currently doing e-mail for approximately 700 users and is also doing radius authentication. I have setup a new FreeBSD computer to take it's place. I have everything setup now on the FreeBSD computer except for the user accounts and mailboxes. The mailboxes aren't a problem, I've used tar to move mailboxes before. I suppose I cannot simply copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /home from the Redhat computer to the FreeBSD computer due to the password hash in /etc/passwd. Am I correct on this? Would it be possible to copy /etc/passwd then (before the new system goes "live") reset all the passwords with the passwd command? That might be easier than adding in close to 700 accounts using adduser. Does anyone have a better idea of how I might go about doing this? Thanks, Lisa Casey