From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 26 9: 1:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [205.252.34.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EE337B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [205.252.34.3]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6C32E444; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:01:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8QG17x18860; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:01:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14800.51266.948197.37377@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:01:06 -0400 (EDT) To: "Janou" Cc: "Lauri Laupmaa" , Subject: RE: passwd upgrade from linux ? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "J" == Janou writes: J> You should be able to copy the /etc/passwd, /etc/group/ and master password J> file to the other and use. I don't think the master password file is completely compatible. The BSD password files have a couple of additional fields, last I checked. You just need to add them as empty fields and it should work. Also check the path to the shells for each user to make sure they are correct. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message