Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 07:21:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsus.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@masternet.it> Subject: SUMMARY: Linux passwd -> FBSD passwd utility (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960708071310.911A-100000@ampere>
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Thanks for the info, the conversion went very well with the FBSD 2.2S
running DES encryption. I used Brandon's perl script to move the
passwords in.
Weldon
Here's the script:
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 09:45:50 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsus.com>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Linux passwd -> FBSD passwd utility
On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote:
> I would like to setup a FBSD box to replace an Linux system, but there is
> the issue of porting the passwords over. Does anyone have, or know where
> to get, an utility/method to import linux passwords into a FreeBSD box?
>
> Weldon
I dont know about a linux system with shadow passwords, but this will
work elsewhere (assuming they are using the same password encryption
scheme
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#!/usr/bin/perl
##
## syntax: frobpwd < linux.passwd > freebsd.passwd
##
## No guarantees about the suitability or functionality of this script,
## I just hacked it up from memory of one I have used before
##
while (<STDIN>) {
chomp;
($name, $pwd, $uid, $gid, $gcos, $home, $shell) = split(/:/);
print "$name:$pwd:$uid:$gid::0:0:$gcos:$home:$shell";
}
----
WG Note: I removed the last \n, it added an extra space to the file, the
EOLN character is carried in with $shell.
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