Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:26:03 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: ipfreak@yahoo.com, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: passwd file transfer Message-ID: <b79ecaef0904161526n7fa8d8b0y74fc379726d18549@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <529347.15907.qm@web52111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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2009/4/16 gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>: > > Hi all: > > we have a linux based system and it will be replaced with freebsd based system. but i would like to reuse users' password. is there any better way to do this? > > > You *could* use some fancy awk | sed stuff to get passwords from your existing file and stick them in your /etc/master.passwd BUT it'd probably be far easier to just get users to recreate passwords. You should tell them to do this regularly anyway... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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