Baldur Gislason wrote:
This will not work, but I did migrate a 100 users from Linux to FreeBSD a couple of years ago. What I did was I used an application that comes with john the ripper called deshadow or something like that to combine the shadow and the passwd files into a passwd file with the hashes in place. Then I wrote a perl script to convert the linux passwd file into a BSD compatible passwd file, and then just appended it to my master.passwd and rebuilt the database by using vipw. I'm sure there are applications to do this.
It's funny but I migrated ~100 users too last month from Slackware 10 to FreeBSD 5.4 and I had no problem with the password hash. I created a small script to extract fields from shadow/passwd and re-added those users using pw and the -H option to supply their encrypted password.
It seems to have worked fine and this whole thread just got me by surprise with the feeling that I completely forgot about password differences between Linux and FreeBSD at the time. I'm glad everything worked!
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