From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 5:29:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.systec.no (box80-64-196-210.sdsl.no [80.64.196.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B42537B410 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 05:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skywalker.systec.no (isa.systec.no [192.168.100.3]) by relay.systec.no (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g56CTFY05484; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:29:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oystein.andreassen@systec.no) Received: by skywalker.systec.no with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:29:07 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= To: "'Heinrich Rebehn'" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:29:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man pwd_mkdb -----Original Message----- From: Heinrich Rebehn [mailto:rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 14:25 To: Axel Scheepers Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local Axel Scheepers wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:15:57PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>We have a FreeBSD server running 4.5-RELEASE, that acts as a NIS client for >>login. NIS server is a Sparc/Solaris machine that runs NIS+ in NIS compatible mode. >>I want to get rid of the Sparc and since there are no more NIS clients, i want >>to use local passwd for login. How can i transfer the passwd data (including >>crypted passwords) from the NIS server to the local passwd database? >>I am able to extract the data from NIS, but how do i write it to local? >>I really do not want to require all our users to set their passwords again. >> > > > Hi Heinrich, > > It's been a while, but doesn't ypcat master.password on a authoritive host > do the trick? > > Gr, Sure, but how do i get the data into the local passwd database? Heinrich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message