Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:21:50 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: tech@squid.tznet.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUN TO BSD Message-ID: <200103052321.f25NLoD76490@explorer.rsa.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10103051451510.94005-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write:
>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.
It is fairly trivial, provided you have DES passwords enabled in
FreeBSD (hmm... could be the "basic crypto" distribution you pick
during installation, I don't remember).
Find someone with some Perl[1] programming skills, point them at the
passwd(5) man-page on FreeBSD and the passwd(4) and shadow(4)
man-pages on solaris. The task is to merge the information from
the solaris files into a /etc/master.passwd[2] on FreeBSD (without
overwriting anything already in that file:-). Then run pwd_mkdb(8)
to build the database files.
$.02,
/Mikko
[1] Sure, other languages might do, but Perl really shines at this
kind of work. Heck, a real Perl guru could probably do the whole
thing as a one-liner...
[2] Do experiment on a separate file to begin with :^)
--
Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
RSA Security
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