Date: 11 Apr 2003 13:54:58 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing a foreign passwd file to FreeBSD Message-ID: <44fzooc425.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <p05210619babbc2534d66@[63.202.92.152]> References: <p05210619babbc2534d66@[63.202.92.152]>
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Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> writes: > Hi again. I'm setting up a new FreeBSD system to replace an old NetBSD > one. I want to import all the users and their passwords. As an > experiment on a test box, I tried importing the master.passwd and > passwd file from the NetBSD box, that FreeBSD won't let me log in; I > always get "Login incorrect". Nothing is logged in /var/log/anything, > so I don't know why the login attempts are failing. The users' home > directories are created, and they're in proper groups. > > Is this possible to do? Sure. I don't think there are any inter-platform issues, assuming FreeBSD can handle whatever password format you were using on NetBSD. I think you just forgot to build the password database. See the man pages for vipw(8) and pwd_mkdb(8).
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