system password's file

[Baldur Gislason]

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.

Baldur

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:11:11PM -0000, iwan at staff.usd.ac.id wrote:
> Thanks for you all,
> I will do this step.
> 
> regards.
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would suggest you to try the below and make sure this
> > works
> >
> > 1 ) Install a new freebsd server
> > 2 ) create a user on your linux machine say with username
> > freebsd and some
> > password
> > 3 ) now copy the data in your /etc/passwd file of linux
> > machine to freebsd
> > machine
> > 4 ) Also copy the /etc/shadow file to freebsd server and
> > renmae it as
> > /etc/master.passwd
> > 5 ) Also copy /etc/groups
> > 6 ) Now try to login to freebsd machine with the new user
> > created on the
> > linux machine.
> >
> > Note : Please create a copy of the original file on
> > freebsd machine before
> > you change the real file
> >
> > If the test is successful. I suppose you can migrate from
> > linux to freebsd
> > with all the users and their passwords.
> >
> > Also while coping the file make sure that the default
> > enteries are there.
> > That just transfer the user details and not the system
> > user details
> >
> >
> > On 10/14/05, Jiawei Ye <leafy7382 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/14/05, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> > Try /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
> >> > User id and basic stuff in passwd, the encrypted
> >> passwords in shadow. I
> >> > don't know if the encryption algorithms are compatible
> >> between linux
> >> > and bsd or not.
> >> >
> >> > hth
> >> > Simon
> >> Make sure you don't have >16 chars username before
> >> migrating. FreeBSD
> >> doesn't support really long usernames.
> >>
> >> Jiawei
> >> --
> >> "Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
> >> --inspired by The Tao of Programming
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> 
> -- 
> Iwan Binanto
> Divisi Support-BAPSI
> Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta
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