From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 13:34: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C8037B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:33:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.wiliweld.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id NAA09017; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:33:43 -0800 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:31:11 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Bill Moran Cc: Marc W , , Subject: Re: SUN TO BSD In-Reply-To: <3AA402DD.1F4D19C1@iowna.com> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Mon, 5 Mar 2001 it looks like Bill Moran composed: wmoran->Marc W wrote: wmoran->> wmoran->> wmoran->> It actually shouldn't be that hard to write a script to convert all wmoran->> the information-- except for the passwords themselves -- The encrypted wmoran->> version of a password that I have same across my Solaris 8 and FreeBSD wmoran->> 4.2 machines aren't the same. wmoran->> wmoran->> No idea how you'd convert those ... :( wmoran-> wmoran->I believe this has to do with the system default password encryption wmoran->scheme. If both your Solaris & FreeBSD boxes are using the same wmoran->encryption scheme you should see the same encryped password. I've seen wmoran->informatin on how to change this, but I don't exactly remember how. I wmoran->think this is probably important to making NIS work anyway, since wmoran->exported password lists won't work unless the NIS client & NIS server wmoran->are using the same encryption scheme. (feel free to correct me if I'm wmoran->wrong). wmoran-> wmoran->-Bill ................. There is a GNU tool/command called "pwconv" and "pwunconv" to convert and reverse shadow passwords. That may provide a starting point if there is a similar tool in Solaris / BSD -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message