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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nerd.apk.net!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.bconnex.net!news.lightlink.com!mv!news.NH.Destek.Net!mozart.jlc.net!root From: jason@news.jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: moving from NEXTSTEP to FreeBSD Date: 25 Jun 1996 00:34:55 -0400 Organization: John Leslie Consulting, Milford NH Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4qnq9f$i2g@handel.jlc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: handel.jlc.net We'll be in the process of moving our last big NEXTSTEP (Intel) machine from NEXTSTEP to FreeBSD (after much prodding). Problem is, it contains a sizable password file in it's NetInfo database (for those who may not know, it's NeXT's proprietary NIS-like distributed database). I can export the NetInfo passwd file into it's Un*x flat-file format (standard /etc/passwd) containing the DES encrypted passwords. If I install FreeBSD on a machine with DES and just copy the exported password file, are the chances good that the password file will operate (after tweaking some of the lower numbered users, of course)? This is the only thing holding me back; I don't feel like re-adding hundreds of user entries :) -- Jason T. Nelson jason@jlc.net http://www.jlc.net/~jason/ NeXT/MIME mail ok!