From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 29 10:59:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C565155B2 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA23314; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:58:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA23774; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:58:22 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:58:22 -0600 Message-Id: <199909291758.LAA23774@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Troy Settle" Cc: , Subject: RE: changing server platforms In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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