Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:50:53 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Ofloo <bulk@ofloo.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password file migration Message-ID: <467244DD.9060809@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <11134620.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <10840247.post@talk.nabble.com> <11093482.post@talk.nabble.com> <7CDA68DA-A40D-4A6A-B9D7-1AFF589E9316@messier.com> <11134620.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Ofloo wrote:
> I did the same thing a long time ago and i just created used pwd_mkdb, and it
> worked fine.
>
> Though i'm not entirely sure what this has to do with this topic.
>
>
> Mark Messier wrote:
>
>> I know this has been covered before, but the search mechanism
>> at the mailing list archive doesn't seem to work (zero matches for
>> the word: password).
>>
>> I've got a 5.3 system and a 6.2 system. I want to migrate the user
>> accounts from the 5.3 to the 6.2. They use different encryption
>> mechanisms for the password in master.password.
>>
>> Other that running a cracker, is there a way to upconvert the
>> old to the new?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -mark
>>
Simply running mergemaster (part of the recommended upgrade errata)
should do the trick, as it will prompt you to execute some commands to
'upgrade' the password database and other relevant databases.
-Garrett
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