From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 5: 7:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (a185066.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.185.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15CD437B401 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 05:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EA6F249AB2; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:07:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:07:42 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers To: Heinrich Rebehn Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local Message-ID: <20020606140742.D67863@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <3CFF446D.9040905@ant.uni-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CFF446D.9040905@ant.uni-bremen.de>; from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:15:57PM +0200 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 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, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message