On October 13, 2005 09:29 pm, Jayesh Jayan wrote: > I would suggest you to try the below and make sure this works
> 1 ) Install a new freebsd server > 2 ) create a user on your linux machine say with username freebsd and > some password > 3 ) now copy the data in your /etc/passwd file of linux machine to > freebsd machine > 4 ) Also copy the /etc/shadow file to freebsd server and renmae it as > /etc/master.passwd Don't do this, you'll kill all the accounts on your system. > 5 ) Also copy /etc/groups > 6 ) Now try to login to freebsd machine with the new user created on > the linux machine. If you search the OpenBSD FAQ, you'll find the correct process to take to convert Linux users to BSD users. It's a very quick awk script, and it works quite nicely. I used it to convert 500 users on a RedHat 6.2 system to a FreeBSD 5.3 system without any hiccups. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
