From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 12:53: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gmotion.com (gmotion.com [161.58.223.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434D337B400 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.100.51] (246-44.netsecure.net [208.246.246.44]) by gmotion.com (8.11.6) id g2LKqok67383; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:52:50 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:00:18 -0600 Subject: Re: User migration problems again... From: "John M. Fannon" To: Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200203211831.g2LIVsa24112@www.mentorhigh.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5/9/41 12:31 PM, "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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message