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Date:      08 Apr 2004 10:41:33 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Brian Sheehan <brian.sheehan@ul.ie>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Migrating user accounts from linux to freebsd
Message-ID:  <44u0zu4jmq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040408143808.H30924@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
References:  <40753CC0.60104@ul.ie> <20040408143808.H30924@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> writes:

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Brian Sheehan wrote:
> 
> > I've recently done a fresh installation of freebsd 4.9, and now I want
> > to migrate the user accounts from a redhat 9 machine to the new freebsd
> > machine, and hopefully keep logins and passwords unchanged. Is this
> > possible?
> 
> It is possible, but you need to write a shell or perl script to combine
> the user entries in the Linux files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow 
[...]

There's an awk script in the passwd(5) manual for this purpose.



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