Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:57:20 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: "rick - SomersNet, Inc." <rick@123HostIt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing from Linux to FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20000214215720.B41631@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <38A86962.13265626@123HostIt.com>; from rick@123HostIt.com on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:45:22PM -0800 References: <38A86962.13265626@123HostIt.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:45:22PM -0800, rick - SomersNet, Inc. wrote: > Hi There.. > > I have searched through all the information I can find, but so far I > haven't found what I am looking for.. > > I currently run extremely high load Linux Boxes (RH 6) and I have come > to the conclusion that Linux can no longer support my stability needs. > So I want to make the switch from linux to FreeBSD. > > I have replacement boxes that I have loaded FreeBSD 3.3, now I just need > to move the hundreds of sites from the Linux box, to the new FBSD box. I > have made a tar ball of all the user directories, so I am just going to > move that to the new box and extract it.. However, how do I add all the > users without using 'adduser' for every user? I know OpenBSD has a > simple shell to convert the linux passwd and group files, but does FBSD? > > > Your help is much appreciated, You should be able to do this with an awk(1) script. However, I am not sure all Linux distributions even use the same format for the passwd files. I do know that RedHat can use an /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file. Each contains info that is not in the other. This can make things a bit tricky since they must be merged to make a FreeBSD /etc/master.passwd. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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