From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 12:52:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from asmodeus.diabolis.net (209-6-187-14.c6-0.wth-ubr1.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.6.187.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C286D3E7A for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from asmodeus (asmodeus [192.168.2.6]) by asmodeus.diabolis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02287; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:48:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:48:18 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson X-Sender: bunicula@asmodeus.diabolis.net To: "rick - SomersNet, Inc." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing from Linux to FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: <38A86962.13265626@123HostIt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, rick - SomersNet, Inc. wrote: > move that to the new box and extract it.. However, how do I add all the > users without using 'adduser' for every user? I know OpenBSD has a > simple shell to convert the linux passwd and group files, but does FBSD? Take a look at man 5 passwd on the FreeBSD box... at the bottom, there's an awk script to convert from old style to new style passwd files. I used this without problem going from RHL 6.0 to FreeBSD 3.4. Your results may vary, so don't blame me if it all blows up :) Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message