From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 00:06:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA03475 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:06:00 -0700 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA03468 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:05:53 -0700 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA13394 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@FreeBSD.org); Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:09:17 +0200 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:11:20 +0300 To: dhawk@netcom.com (David H) From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: Converting Linux passwd file to FreeBSD Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I have a 300 user Linux system (for conferencing) that I'm >converting to FreeBSD. I'd like for the existing users to >login to the new system with their existing userids/passwords. >Is there a way to convert the old password file for use on >FreeBSD? I think it goes like this: 1. You must use DES in FreeBSD 2. cp /etc/master.passwd /etc/master.passwd.bak 3. use vipw and include Linux /etc/passwd efter FreeBSD /etc/passwd 4. delete linux root etc accounts 5. add the missing account expiration etc. fields on every Linux passwd file line (after group id the characters ::0:0) 6. exit vipw Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +