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On 7/7/07, Lisa Casey wrote:
I suppose I cannot simply copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /home from the Redhat computer to the FreeBSD computer due to the password hash in /etc/passwd. Am I correct on this? Would it be possible to copy /etc/passwd then (before the new system goes "live") reset all the passwords with the passwd command? That might be easier than adding in close to 700 accounts using adduser. Does anyone have a better idea of how I might go about doing this?
The other answers to your question are more informative, but I just thought I'd point out the chpass command. I no longer have access to the script I wrote before, but it wasn't difficult. I just wrote a little script that read the passwd and shadow files, ignored the system accounts, and then constructed a valid line for the master.passwd file, then just fed it to the system with chpass -a "$new_entry" - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFGkMryNTm8fWdRgmIRAl7+AJ0SHBQGrtESAgj3uAyCvj0y57fReACgw5po Ueuco3rkR/VseXPMqOjzb+4= =d8g0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
