Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:44:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: dan kelley <djk121@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: converting a linux /etc/passwd to freebsd /etc/master.passwd Message-ID: <20010322104418.A4116@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010322164027.29414.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com>; from "dan kelley" on Thu Mar 22 08:40:27 GMT 2001 References: <20010322164027.29414.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Mar 22), dan kelley said:
> has anyone come across a relatively painless way to do this?
>
> i have a large number of users that i need to migrate, and i'd rather
> not have to recreate the entries on the freebsd box by hand.
run pwunconv on the Linux end, copy it over to freebsd, run
awk < passwd.linux > /etc/master.passwd 'BEGIN { FS = ":"} { print $1 ":" $2 ":" $3 ":" $4 "::0:0:" $5 ":" $6 ":" $7 }'
run pwd_mkdb, and you should be set.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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