Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:55:35 -0000 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: dwbear75@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: batchmode adding user accounts Message-ID: <20030424061811.GI50895@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030423222836.A28992@asu.edu> References: <20030423222836.A28992@asu.edu>
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In the last episode (Apr 23), David Bear said: > I have migrated a linux box to freebsd. I would like to add all the > user accounts from linux to bsd but the format of /etc/passwd vs > master.password is problematic. > > what I would like to try is pull out the user id from my old passwd > file and somehow batchmode add them to my new system. I can use awk > to get the old ids. But is there utility that will accept a list of > user ids to add to master.password? The passwd(5) manpage has an awk script at the bottom that will convert regular passwd to master.passwd format. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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