Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux

[Bill Vermillion]

While stranded on the shoulder of the Information Superhiway and
trying to flag down some passing bytes Scott St. John said "Bits
don't fail me now", and continued with:

> I have been searching the net for a simple answer and I will
> continue to look, but if anyone has a link, please pass it
> along.

> Two years ago I converted my BSDi password file to Linux with a
> simple script to replace fields. For obvious reasons I want to
> move back to FreeBSD, but of course I need to convert the Linux
> passwd file of 2,000+ users to FreeBSD.

> Any links will be appreciated!

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
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com