Conversion to FreeBSD from Linux

[Roberto Pereyra]

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 at snsonline.net>
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