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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux -> FreeBSD Migration
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 18:22:30 GMT
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Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group (cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) wrote:
: I'm in the process of migrating a server from Linux to FreeBSD 2.1.
: Is there any way to "move" the password file over from Linux to FreeBSD
: without having to re-encrypt the user's passwords. Basically I'm looking to
: migrate a box with an application that runs out of a number of captive shell
: accounts, so other than the Berkeley copyright message, the end-user should
: not see any difference in the application.
i think - if you install the des stuff in FreeBSD you should be able
to use your old passswd entries - as far as i know linux uses a des
compatible crypt
t
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