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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!news.uni-mainz.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Password file... Date: 9 Jun 1996 08:09:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4pe0se$4s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pcon1$coo@news.idt.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <4pcon1$coo@news.idt.net> To: parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com (Parthiv Shah) parthiv@phoenix.hq.ios.com (Parthiv Shah) wrote: > I would like move to BSDI from FreeBSD my password file. My password file > won't work. Is there such a script that will do that? If both systems use different password encryption schemes, there's no such thing like ``a script that will do that''. Encrypted passwords cannot (easily) be deciphered. You either have to assign new passwords on the new machine, or hack the crypt(3) library function on your new machine to accept both forms of the encrypted password. (That's what the crypt() function in FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable does.) Of course, for statically linked binaries, you are at a loss. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)