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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!agate!alanc From: alanc@godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 user's database -> Solaris 2.5.1 ? Date: 2 Dec 1996 20:22:27 GMT Organization: Univ. of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57vdq4$n0j@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <329C3E56.2CBE@spark.net.gr> <57l4h0$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla-134.eecs.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31961 comp.unix.solaris:91171 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes in comp.unix.solaris: |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. Solaris 2.x does have passwd shadowing on by default - but once you get the passwd file in the above standard old-fashioned UNIX format, you can just append it to the /etc/passwd file and then run pwconv which will transfer all the passwords to the /etc/shadow file and set up the passwd aging, etc. entries in there correctly. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Alan Coopersmith alanc@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU University of California, Berkeley or: alanc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU