Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:58:22 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Troy Settle" <st@i-plus.net> Cc: <up@3.am>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: changing server platforms Message-ID: <199909291758.LAA23774@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKPEMLJEBDEPFNHOHCEEGCAAA.st@i-plus.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909291006230.17159-100000@richard2.pil.net> <NDBBKPEMLJEBDEPFNHOHCEEGCAAA.st@i-plus.net>
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> I assume that /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd are identical They are not. Solaris's shadow support is very different from FreeBSD's. In order to do this, you would have to write some sort of script that combined both of these files into the same format as in FreeBSD. This is *NOT* a hard thing to do, and any sufficiently motivated Perl hacker could do this in a few hours, more if they were completely unsure of the formats used by both. No more than a day at most. Someone on your staff is surely qualified to do this. Note, as others have pointed out, you'll want to use DES encrypted passwords on your FreeBSD boxes to be compatible with the Solaris password encryption scheme. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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