Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 01:32:06 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this comes up a lot more these days.. :) Message-ID: <199601090832.BAA13303@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199601090800.AAA00394@violet.berkeley.edu> References: <199601090800.AAA00394@violet.berkeley.edu>
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[ I should have been in bed 3 hours ago. Stupid sound-cards ;) ]
> Subject: Linux -> FreeBSD Migration
..
This was just posted to the BSDi newsgroup.
here is a script to convert the linux passwd file to the master.passwd
file for bsdi:
--begin--
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN { FS = ":" ; OFS = ":" }
{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, "", 0, 0, $5, $6, $7 }
--end--
run it with the following command line(of course, backup existing
files:
scriptname linuxpasswdfile >>/etc/master.passwd
which will concatenate it to your existing master.passwd file.
then run /usr/sbin/vipw, remove the duplicate entries and make other
modifications as necessary. exiting will update the *db files.
you may want to look at the resulting /etc/passwd file to see if it is
updated also,but i don't remember.
there are also other considerations: the home directories, permissions,
groups, etc.
hope this helps,
GMac
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