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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