From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 13: 7:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dunces.org (dunces.org [64.81.23.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE1D37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:07:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from czr@dunces.org) Received: from localhost (czr@localhost) by dunces.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f25L2qG23506; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:02:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from czr@dunces.org) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:02:52 -0800 (PST) From: czr To: Bill Moran Cc: Scott Pilz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUN TO BSD In-Reply-To: <3AA3FE91.A4686471@iowna.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 This would most likely work. We have a SUN NIS server on a network with many different OS's and it works very well. I cant help you on how this would be setup but it is a functional solution. Burke On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Bill Mora > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message