Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux

[Scott St. John]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> If you don't find any scripts I found it was not that difficult
> with vi, a little editing, and the using the cut and paste unix
> utilities.  It's basically putting the appropriate parts
> from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, adding the two extra fields for
> BSD, and then running the vipw on the completed file.
> Since it was a one-time thing for me, but it was Irix to BSD and
> the file format on both Irix and Linux passwords were the same, I
> figured I could do it manually editing rather than take the time to
> write a script.

Bill-

Thanks for the info, I might try this, what do I have to loose?  This will
be a one time conversion as well since I will not be using Linux any
longer for email, etc.  So it will be once, done and all new users will be
added directly on the machine.

Thanks!

-Scott