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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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