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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Re: Moving Users from Linux to FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Lines: 31 Organization: Forth EDV Beratung+Schulung Message-ID: <E5tBK7.C3y@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> References: <E5sqqu.9ox@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <5eclu4$jnn$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:02:31 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35701 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 -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 581072 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 581073