From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 30 11:50:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08748 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from stepahead.net (stepahead.net [205.161.119.233]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08741 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (irq@localhost) by stepahead.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA08974; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:49:40 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:49:34 -0500 (EST) From: interrupt request To: Terry Lambert cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199703301925.MAA08284@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Where can I access these archives? ----------------------------------------- On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > FreeBSD passwords aren't in /etc/passwd, they're in a db. You need to > > > > Well, to be more accurate - they're shadowed in /etc/passwd but > > actually in /etc/master.passwd (from which the db is built). > > > > If you have DES style passwords on your Linux box, just make sure > > that the DES distribution is installed on your FreeBSD box then > > copy the entries into /etc/master.passwd using vipw(1). When > > you're done adjusting the entries to taste (home directory, GCOS > > field changes, etc), vipw will rebuild the databases automatically. > > Even more accurately, there is a shell script to do this conversion, > including fixing the field differences. The shell script is in the > -questions and -hackers list archives. > > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >