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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:29:05 +0200 
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= <oystein.andreassen@systec.no>
To:        "'Heinrich Rebehn'" <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local
Message-ID:  <E0B92A48AF8CD31185EA0008C778E0910E1574@skywalker.systec.no>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Heinrich Rebehn [mailto:rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 14:25
To: Axel Scheepers
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local


Axel Scheepers wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:15:57PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>We have a FreeBSD server running 4.5-RELEASE, that acts as a NIS client
for 
>>login. NIS server is a Sparc/Solaris machine that runs NIS+ in NIS
compatible mode.
>>I want to get rid of the Sparc and since there are no more NIS clients, i
want 
>>to use local passwd for login. How can i transfer the passwd data
(including 
>>crypted passwords) from the NIS server to the local passwd database?
>>I am able to extract the data from NIS, but how do i write it to local?
>>I really do not want to require all our users to set their passwords
again.
>>
> 
> 
> Hi Heinrich,
> 
> It's been a while, but doesn't ypcat master.password on a authoritive host
> do the trick?
> 
> Gr,

Sure, but how do i get the data into the local passwd database?

Heinrich


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