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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!psinntp!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu!localhost!gene From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] why pwd_mkdb manually? (was: first impression) Date: 15 Oct 94 08:00:43 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 21 Message-ID: <GENE.94Oct15080043@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <JUN.94Oct11105657@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> <37k2ch$8t6@nasim.cube.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.cs.sunysb.edu. In-reply-to: knarf@nasim.cube.net's message of 13 Oct 1994 20:38:57 +0100 In article <37k2ch$8t6@nasim.cube.net> knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels) writes: You did not understand my question: I have a SunOS and a FreeBSD machine connected in my home network. My users don't want to change passwords twice and I do not want to run YP, because it's not (yet) fully supported and it's a hog for just passwd and just two machines anyway. As the sun does not have master.passwd and the FreeBSD machine does not understand password aging (e.g. `,..') I cannot just rdist the passwd from the sun to the FreeBSD machine. So I need something converting the traditional passwd format to a master.passwd format before rdist'ing the file. I would think a simple awk script would do just fine, assuming that you can fill in default values for the fields that are in FreeBSD master.passwd but not in SunOS passwd. Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is in terms of turning on the NIS server on SunOS and turning on ypbind on FreeBSD. - Gene Stark