From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 18:50:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06955 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:50:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ada.somerville.qld.edu.au (root@[203.16.236.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA06725 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:49:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@muse.org.au) Received: from titania (titania [203.16.236.6]) by ada.somerville.qld.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA00933 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:55:23 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980728114933.00989890@ada.somerville.qld.edu.au> X-Sender: alexh@ada.somerville.qld.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:49:33 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Helbig Subject: Moving password files from LINUX to FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Everyone, I have a question that may requrie a simple answer. Does anyone know how to port a LINUX password file to FreeBSD so that usernames and passwords can be maintained? We are moving our email server from LINUX to FreeBSD and need to port several hundred accounts. Now I have a script to recreate the uernames, directory structure, etc. But what about the passwords? Can these be ported in some way? There seems to be some difficulty in this in that the LINUX password file contains encrypted passwords while FreeBSD uses a seperate passwords database. Is there a script available to do this kind of a thing, or am I hopeing for the impossible? Any help appreciated, Regards Alex \\\/// / _ _ \ (| (.)(.) |) ----------------.OOOo--()--oOOO.------------------- Alex Helbig Somerville House Head Of I.T 17 Graham Street ph 07 3248 9224 South Brisbane ahelbig@somerville.qld.edu.au Qld Australia -----------------.oooO----------------------------- ( ) Oooo. \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message