From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 07:42:20 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 32B2437B404 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.scottah.com (kelly.talon.net [207.8.228.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719E543FB1 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ssj@scottah.com) Received: from dormont.scottah.com (dyan.talon.net [207.8.228.47]) by mail.scottah.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9F311A36 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030610104112.011bd008@mail.scottah.com> X-Sender: ssj@mail.scottah.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:42:15 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Scott St. John" In-Reply-To: <3EE5A800.9070302@sirtis.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 14:42:20 -0000 Jonathan- Perfect! Thank you, I will give that a try today once I get 5.1 running. -Scott >>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? > >Nice and easy. I've done this a few times recently on Linux boxes. >There's a nice FAQ entry at: >http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#passwd