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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
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To: alex@muse.org.au
Subject: Re: Moving passwd files from LINUX to FreeBSD
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the encrypted passwords are kept in /etc/master.passwd in FreeBSD.

the only problem between Linux and FreeBSD password files is that
FreeBSD has 3 extra fields between the group and the GEOS field.
a simple perl program or awk script can insert those fields:

#  awk -F: '{print $1":"$2":"$3":"$4"::::"$5":"$6":"$7}' < Linux_passwd > FreeBSD.passwd

then make the /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd and database files:

# pwd_mkdb -p FreeBSD.passwd

--mark.

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