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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>:
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> 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



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