From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 05:04:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA13047 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 05:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13042 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 05:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA27653; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:02:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3226D861.2CDF@ime.net> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:02:41 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Beckmann CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Beckmann wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an old Linux system (an old Slackware probably), with Kernel 1.3.32 > . The system was installed about two years ago, and has become somewhat > unstable recently, so I would like to upgrade it to FreeBSD 2.1.5 or > -current. My only concern is that I cannot keep the /etc/passwd file. The > system has a couple dozen users, and I don't want to notify them of the > password change. So does anybody know if I can import the Linux password > file to FreeBSD ? I don't know which encryption it has, and whether that > can be used by FreeBSD. > I'd really prefer FreeBSD over linux for the upgrade, but if the password > file cannot be used, it will remain a Linux machine. > > Thanks for your help, > > Michael The questions list is enough. Yes, There are tools for converting, To find them search the questions list archives on FreeBSD.org. Someone else may reply with the exact info. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848