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Subject: Re: Moving passwd files from LINUX to FreeBSD
To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
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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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