From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 01:46:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33ACD37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.ii.uib.no (eik.ii.uib.no [129.177.16.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F9643FAF for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:46:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s1465@lstud.ii.uib.no) Received: from havengel.ii.uib.no ([129.177.122.5]) by smtp.ii.uib.no with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19Pem2-0005iE-00; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:46:34 +0200 Received: (from s1465@localhost) by havengel.ii.uib.no (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h5A8kKX14413; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:46:20 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:46:12 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sondre_R=F8njom?= To: "Scott St. John" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -31.0 (-------------------------------) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19Pem2-0005iE-00*Jsu/f/ly5/M* cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting Linux passwd to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:46:54 -0000 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Scott St. John wrote: > After spending a year converting my ISP to Linux I have had enough and am > ready to come back home to FreeBSD. The ips driver in 5.1 also helps > since I am running IBM Netfinity's. > > Is anyone familiar with a tool to convert my Linux passwd files to FreeBSD > so I don't have to manually recreate the accounts? > There are tools out there to do it. I have seen some Perl scripts. What I did was to create my own python-script which was a very easy thing to do. I could send you it if I find it and you still are interested Sondre