Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:01:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael Beckmann <petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960830220020.267A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960829185020.18207A-100000@zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Michael Beckmann wrote: > 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. Yes, your Linux passwd file can be converted. You'll have to search the -questions archives on http://www.freebsd.org under "search" for the Perl script and/or location, since I don't have them offhand. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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