Final conversion questions

[Scott St. John]

Bob-

I do not have a NFS connection between the two boxes, I am using scp to 
transfer files between the Linux and the new FreebSD boxes.  I used John The 
Ripper to merge my passwd and shadow files and then used some awk scripts 
from the OpenBSD site to format, then create my new passwd file for BSD.  I 
am almost sure the UID/GID will NOT be the same since BSD starts at a 
different # than Linux where my first UID is 1000.

If you have it, it sounds like the perl script would be the better trick 
since it would check the passwd file instead of assuming the UID/GID were 
the same.

Thanks!

-Scott

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:53:12 -0600, Bob Martin wrote
> Scott,
> I haven't followed this thread closely enough, but from what you're
> saying, it sounds like you have a NFS connection between the 2 boxen.
> That being the case, and since the UID/GID's are the same on both boxen
> (IIRC you moved the Linux accounts to the BSD box), the following
> command will get all of the files, and maintain the permissions:
> 
> cp -pRP /<linux mount point/home/* /home/
> 
> If the UID/GID's have changed, then this command will fix them for you:
> (Note, this assumes you use bash as your shell)
> cd /home
> for a in `ls -1 /home`;do chown -R $a:users $a;done
> 
> That command does assume that you have a 1 to 1 relationship between
> home directories and usernames. If not, let me know and I'll find my
> little perl script that reads /etc/passwd and sets the permissions.