From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 09:37:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA07668 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07653 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:36:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA25060 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 12:38:34 -0500 Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa26317; 24 Jan 96 12:39 EST Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 12:39:41 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd linux and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <96Jan24.114052est.20482@janus.border.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Morini Stefano wrote: > > > > > -- > > Morini Stefano > > > > On my System I have 200 user account on linux system. I don' t know > > password of my users. > > Is it possible use crypt password linux system and migrate on FreeBSD > > system. > > I would think if linux is using DES and you install freeBSD with DES you could write a convert program to make the /etc/passwd file with the *'s in the password field, and the /etc/master.passwd with the real password plus extra fields, and that it would work.