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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.
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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.