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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving Users from Linux to FreeBSD
Date: 18 Feb 1997 16:38:28 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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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,
2. use a script to transform /etc/passwd into a proper /etc/master.passwd
and run ``pkd_mkdb -p'' on it.
The script itself is 3 lines of awk or Perl and is left to the reader... :-)
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