From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 22:01:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA20195 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA20183 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00279; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:01:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Michael Beckmann cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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