Help passwd file convert

[Lowell Gilbert]

Sean Murphy <smurphy at calarts.edu> writes:

> I am going to move over from Solaris 8 to FreeBSD 5.4 but would like
> to keep uid, usernames, and passwords from the Solaris 8 box intact
> when I move them to the FreeBSD box.  Is it just as simple as a copy
> and paste for the passwd file?  Is there any commands I have to run
> after the copy and paste?  Anything need to be done to the
> master.passwd file?

It's not quite that simple, but it isn't very hard.  
See the passwd(5) manual.