From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 13: 2:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D599337B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:02:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f25L0Er06527; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:00:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AA3FE91.A4686471@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:01:05 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUN TO BSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Pilz wrote: > > Does anyone know of a program, utility, or someone that knows code well > enough, to convert the SUNOS (5.7) password files to FreeBSD 4.0 password > files? > > Can this, has this, would this ever, be able to be done? > > We have a Sun box that has 10k users, it sucks. > > We want to switch from Sun and go to BSD all the way. > > Is this even possible? I don't want to type in 10,000 user's names and > passwords by hand. Can't blame you. Have you considered setting the Sun up as and NIS server and a BSD box up as an NIS client so the BSD box will import the user list via NIS? I warn you that I haven't tried this and don't know if it would work, or what the exact procedure would be. It's just and idea. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message