From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 1:17:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov (gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.4.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B9437B719; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SUN TO BSD X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 March 21, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Robert L Sowders" Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:34:52 -0800 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on gscamnlm03/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.3 |March 21, 2000) at 03/06/2001 01:17:34 AM, Serialize complete at 03/06/2001 01:17:34 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No the hapless slowaris admin would have to use the FreeBSD box as the NIS master then. What a shame. "Ted Mittelstaedt" Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 03/06/2001 12:26 AM To: "Robert L Sowders" cc: 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message