--- John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
>       in a few weeks I need to convert a couple of hundred userids
> from a Sun Solaris 5.8 box to Linux-Debian.
> 
>       Does anybody know of a way to do this without the users
> losing their passwords?

I assume you'll be using shadow passwords? As mentioned in another thread,
use 'pwconv'.

-- Thomas Adam

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