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From: krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Kinney Baughman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving Users from Linux to FreeBSD
Date: 22 Feb 1997 20:18:50 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
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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

: Is there an easy way?

There might be an easier way but I had to manually add all the users
on my new FreeBSD system.

Kinney