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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!geertj From: geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net (Geert Jan de Groot) Subject: Re: /etc/passwd compatibility between FreeBSD and BSDI? Message-ID: <Du57x9.2w4@solair1.inter.NL.net> Organization: NLnet X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) References: <31dadefd.12208627@news.qtm.net> <31DD8EC5.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 22:31:57 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22951 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4253 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >Craig Norborg wrote: >> >> I am running a BSDi 2.0.1 system and a FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE system and >> I would like to be able to rdist the passwd files between the two. Is there any >> way to accomplish this? Currently if the passwd file is copied between the two, >> the passwords are not recognized when logging in. >Install the DES distribution on both machines (using the BSD/OS >distribution for BSD/OS and the FreeBSD distribution for FreeBSD, >naturally:-) I hate to contradict Jordan, but BSDI ships with the 'standard' DES encryption code, so you don't need to install anything extra on BSD/OS. FreeBSD does need the extra DES package, however. Also, keep in mind that BSD/OS uses a database version of the password file, so you only need to rdist /etc/master.passwd, and run pwd_mkdb (probably using a 'special' directive in the rdist file; that's how I did it) Geert Jan