In the last episode (Apr 23), David Bear said: > I have migrated a linux box to freebsd. I would like to add all the > user accounts from linux to bsd but the format of /etc/passwd vs > master.password is problematic. > > what I would like to try is pull out the user id from my old passwd > file and somehow batchmode add them to my new system. I can use awk > to get the old ids. But is there utility that will accept a list of > user ids to add to master.password?
The passwd(5) manpage has an awk script at the bottom that will convert regular passwd to master.passwd format. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"