Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:34:52 -0800 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SUN TO BSD Message-ID: <OF7EA72511.00109F06-ON88256A07.002EDDD6@wr.usgs.gov>
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No the hapless slowaris admin would have to use the FreeBSD box as the NIS
master then. What a shame.
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
03/06/2001 12:26 AM
To: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov>
cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: SUN TO BSD
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Robert L
>Sowders
>
>If the above steps complete without error, you should have a working
>password file. You can force a passwd change at next login by replacing
>the 6 field 0 with a 1, to get everyone into the MD5 camp.
>
Ohhh- be sure you want to do this! Once the passwords are changed to
MD5, you can't go back to Solaris with them.
While I'm a FreeBSD bigot, I'm not evil enough to completely fsck over
the next admin that comes after me, should that person decide they
don't want to run FreeBSD and take the works back to Slowlaris.
Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
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