Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:00:18 -0600 From: "John M. Fannon" <jfannon@gmotion.com> To: <monk@mentorhigh.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: User migration problems again... Message-ID: <B8BFA601.9D5%jfannon@gmotion.com> In-Reply-To: <200203211831.g2LIVsa24112@www.mentorhigh.com>
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On 5/9/41 12:31 PM, "monk@mentorhigh.com" <monk@mentorhigh.com> wrote:
^-set your date please!
> I appreciate all the help I have gotten so far. I am trying to move users from
> a
> LinuxPPC box to 4.5. I have managed to add entries to the master.passwd file
> and
> run the command 'pwd_makedb' ok, but it won't let me do it for the passwd
> file.
> It gives me an error on line 3 which is the root line which is the following:
>
> root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash
>
> Is there anything wrong with that?
Looks like a shadowed password file (no FaEhbRwVBew stuff where the * is.)
>
> Also the passwords don't work either for the users that I have migrated. Is
> this
> an encryption problem or am I doin something else wrong?
Well, if you have '*' in place of the needed passwords, they will obviously
not be known to BSD (or anything/one for that matter)
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