Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:58:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Wolstenholme <wolstena@sfu.ca> To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: alex@muse.org.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving passwd files from LINUX to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199807282358.QAA20437@beaufort.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <199807281318.IAA14422@plains.NoDak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Jul 28, 98 08:18:38 am
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Coincedentally I was doing the same thing. Thanks for the tip. Now I
have a stupid regular expression question. I wanted to do a quick and
dirty change to the home directory path but I can't figure out how to add
a "/" to the replacement string using sed. I wanted to make a global
change to the home directory location -- /Users --> /home/edwina
I tried:
sed s/Users/home\/edwina/g passwd.file > passwd.new
/Paul
>
> the encrypted passwords are kept in /etc/master.passwd in FreeBSD.
>
> the only problem between Linux and FreeBSD password files is that
> FreeBSD has 3 extra fields between the group and the GEOS field.
> a simple perl program or awk script can insert those fields:
>
> # awk -F: '{print $1":"$2":"$3":"$4"::::"$5":"$6":"$7}' < Linux_passwd > FreeBSD.passwd
>
> then make the /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd and database files:
>
> # pwd_mkdb -p FreeBSD.passwd
>
> --mark.
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