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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 user's database -> Solaris 2.5.1 ? Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:42:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57l4h0$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <329C3E56.2CBE@spark.net.gr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31738 comp.unix.solaris:90832 Angelos Vasdaris <angel@spark.net.gr> wrote: > What we need to do is to transfer our user's passwords from the old to > the new machine. > > DES is installed on the FreeBSD machine. I'm not sure whether Solaris ships with shadow passwords enabled by default or not. If not, simply pick your /etc/passwd from the FreeBSD system, and replace the asterisks in the second field with the actual passwords from /etc/master.passwd. If Solaris uses SVR4-style password shadowing, copy over the /etc/passwd file, and convert the first and second field of /etc/master.passwd to the new /etc/shadow. Have a look there first for how the shadow file actually looks. If Solaris uses everything else, you're on your own. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)