system password's file

Jiawei Ye leafy7382 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 20:25:57 PDT 2005


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
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