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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 user's database -> Solaris 2.5.1 ?
Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:42:40 GMT
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Angelos Vasdaris <angel@spark.net.gr> wrote:

> What we need to do is to transfer our user's passwords from the old to
> the new machine. 
> 
> DES is installed on the FreeBSD machine.

I'm not sure whether Solaris ships with shadow passwords enabled by
default or not.  If not, simply pick your /etc/passwd from the FreeBSD
system, and replace the asterisks in the second field with the actual
passwords from /etc/master.passwd.

If Solaris uses SVR4-style password shadowing, copy over the
/etc/passwd file, and convert the first and second field of
/etc/master.passwd to the new /etc/shadow.  Have a look there first
for how the shadow file actually looks.

If Solaris uses everything else, you're on your own.

-- 
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. ;-)