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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 23:43:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Tony D'Andrade" <blue@visinet.ca>
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Subject: Re: Building passwd file (fwd)
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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Tony D'Andrade wrote:

> 
> 
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> Hi I would like to know how i can take a passwd file from an Older FBSD
> machine and rebuild it on a newer machine.  

Should be no problem.  FreeBSD hasn't changed the password file format
AFAIR. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major