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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux -> FreeBSD Migration
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 20:38:31 GMT
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Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group (cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) wrote:
: : I'm in the process of migrating a server from Linux to FreeBSD 2.1.
: : Is there any way to "move" the password file over from Linux to FreeBSD
: : without having to re-encrypt the user's passwords. Basically I'm looking to
: : migrate a box with an application that runs out of a number of captive shell
: : accounts, so other than the Berkeley copyright message, the end-user should
: : not see any difference in the application.
: i think - if you install the des stuff in FreeBSD you should be able
: to use your old passswd entries - as far as i know linux uses a des
: compatible crypt
ok - here i'm again - with something from the FreeBSD mailinglists
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This was just posted to the BSDi newsgroup.
here is a script to convert the linux passwd file to the master.passwd
file for bsdi:
--begin--
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN { FS = ":" ; OFS = ":" }
{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, "", 0, 0, $5, $6, $7 }
--end--
run it with the following command line(of course, backup existing
files:
scriptname linuxpasswdfile >>/etc/master.passwd
which will concatenate it to your existing master.passwd file.
then run /usr/sbin/vipw, remove the duplicate entries and make other
modifications as necessary. exiting will update the *db files.
you may want to look at the resulting /etc/passwd file to see if it is
updated also,but i don't remember.
there are also other considerations: the home directories,
permissions,
groups, etc.
hope this helps,
GMac
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hope too this helps
t
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