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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:28:02 +0700
From:      Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        Luciano Mannucci <l@mcs.it>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Migrating users from Linux
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bg%2BBvir_ER18aTti7YLfmm-96EjsVw3tBd5jk=YED-vyooQbg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140722160329.24aff9e6@mordeus>
References:  <20140722160329.24aff9e6@mordeus>

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Luciano,

> Still in the process of migrating all my Linux servers to FreeBSD, I'm
> now trying to move out a couple of thousands users created in a twenty
> years timespan from a linux server.
> Of course I need to keep uid and gid, though the juicy part is...
> the passwords! I have them only in encrypted form and in different
> algorythms (DES, Blowfish, ...) and the happily coexist. Con they
> be used as they are in Freebsd?

Time to set-up a LDAP server, where you register all your user names.
For the password, you will have to ask them to re-register/go through
the change password once.

The advantage is that you will be done for ever.

Bests,

Olivier

>
> Thanks a lot again,
>
> luciano.
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