Re: Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux

From: Roberto Pereyra (rjpereyra_at_gualeguaychu.gov.ar)
Date: 02/26/04

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    Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:32:33 -0300
To: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>

    Hi !

    Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#passwd

    Is for Openbsd but works with FreeBSD.

    Roberto

    On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:24:22AM +1000, Mark Sergeant wrote:
    > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:49, Scott St. John wrote:
    > > Mark-
    > >
    > > I take it I run this directly on the BSD machine? I will give it a try
    > > and let you know how it works out. I will remove the system accounts from
    > > the Linux passwd file before I run the script.
    > >
    >
    > Run this script on the linux machine, then edit the output file to get
    > rid of the system accounts, once that is done scp that file across to
    > the bsd machine and you could simply cat filename >> /etc/master.passwd
    > && pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd . The reason this has to be run on the
    > linux machine is due to how it grabs the system accounts.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Mark
    >
    > > THANK YOU!
    > >
    > > -Scott
    >
    > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Mark Sergeant wrote:
    > >
    > > > -- Begin perl script --
    > > > -- End perl script
    > > >
    > > > Should work well enough on linux as well. ohh and of course if you
    > > > intend to use it more than once drop in some error checking / catching,
    > > > something to remove the system accounts and of course "use strict"
    > --
    > Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>
    > SNSOnline Technical Services

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