From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 12: 2:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E031526A for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24622; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Felix Orondo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migarting Users.... In-Reply-To: <37159668.7416FC33@iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Felix Orondo wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to migrate users across systems,BSDI to FREEBSD,moving the > passwd and master.passwd files across the systems, the system (Freebsd) > doesn't seem to pick it's passwords from this location,When you log in > at first,it maintains the old password files,which at this point have > been overwritten.Running vipw,gives the master.password file though. > On adding a user,it seems to pick the other users,but doesn't allow > logons. Run pwd_mkdb to build the password databases. The text versions are for reference only. Make a backup first! > My suspicion is the encryption schemes are different across the > systems.BSDI ver 2.1 and FreeBDS 2.2.5 Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message