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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: Moving Users from Linux to FreeBSD
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:02:31 GMT
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Ollivier Robert (roberto@eurocontrol.fr) wrote:
:     [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
: 
: In article <E5sqqu.9ox@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de>,
: Stephan Forth <stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> wrote:
: > we want to move 150 Users from a Linux Box (1.2.13) to a 
: > FreeBSD Box (2.1.6[7]) They surely don't want to get new
: > passwords and I surely don't want to set up 150 new passwords :-)
: > The users only need theire accounts for pop/smtp
: 
: 1. don't forget to install the secure distribution to get DES passwords,

I don't think that a German Linux Distribution uses DES, but I'll
give it a try.

: 2. use a script to transform /etc/passwd into a proper /etc/master.passwd
:    and run ``pkd_mkdb -p'' on it.

Thanks for that hint.

: 
: The script itself is 3 lines of awk or Perl and is left to the reader... :-)

The reader has taken this challenge and wrote a little script :-))

Regards, Stephan

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