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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: /etc/passwd compatibility between FreeBSD and BSDI? Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 14:53:09 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31DD8EC5.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <31dadefd.12208627@news.qtm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: doc@qtm.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22907 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4243 Craig Norborg wrote: > > I am running a BSDi 2.0.1 system and a FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE system and > I would like to be able to rdist the passwd files between the two. Is there any > way to accomplish this? Currently if the passwd file is copied between the two, > the passwords are not recognized when logging in. Install the DES distribution on both machines (using the BSD/OS distribution for BSD/OS and the FreeBSD distribution for FreeBSD, naturally:-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project