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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Moving users from Linux to BSDI Date: 4 Jan 1996 15:56:38 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4cgtbn$5dp@hops.entertain.com> References: <4cfsqa$h8e@sleet.snowhill.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp013.entertain.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4cfsqa$h8e@sleet.snowhill.com>, fred@fart.com (Norm) says: > > We are slowly moving over to BSDI for our servers. We have ran BSDI for >some time as a DNS/WEB/NEWS server. The question I have is, what can I do >to move our passwd data to BSDI from Linux? I am under the assumtion >the two OS's do the password encryption differently. And is there an >easy<G> way to get all the user directories created? The Linux vs. BSDI >home directories are not the same as far as contents so I can't just tar >them and move them over. > >norm@snowhill.com > I think you are out of luck in trying to preserve password data between Linux and BSDi.