From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 29 8:41:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from benedict.nall.com (benedict.nall.com [216.30.44.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3073A150E5 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:39:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@nall.com) Received: from nall.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by benedict.nall.com with ESMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id KAA02400 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:38:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37F23263.DF4B5482@nall.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:38:11 -0500 From: Joe Nall Organization: Nall Design Works X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.26 9000/770) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing server platforms References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org up@3.am wrote: > > I'm getting ready to change our main server (mail, user web, ftd, > secondary radius, etc) from Sparc Solaris 2.6 to FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE > soon. My main concern is going to be getting > 1100 usernames and > passwords moved over. > > I can see that just moving /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow over isn't going to > work. In fact, I can see that FBSD doesn't even have an /etc/shadow, but > what I assume contains that data, /etc/pwd.db, which appears to be some > sort of hashed file. Can you set them both up as NIS servers and use ypxfr? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message