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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:17:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        felix@iconnect.co.ke, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Migarting Users....
Message-ID:  <199904151117.HAA04016@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <37159668.7416FC33@iconnect.co.ke>

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> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to migrate users across systems,BSDI to FREEBSD,moving the
> passwd and master.passwd files across the systems, the system (Freebsd)
> doesn't seem to pick it's passwords from this location,When you log in
> at first,it maintains the old password files,which at this point have
> been overwritten.Running vipw,gives the master.password file though.
> On adding a user,it seems to pick the other users,but doesn't allow
> logons.
> My suspicion is the encryption schemes are different across the
> systems.BSDI ver 2.1 and FreeBDS 2.2.5
> I'd appreciate some advice on this
> 
> Felix
> 

 You could have set up MD5 encryption on the FreeBSD box; change it 
 to DES.

 Also, you might want to upgrade from 2.2.5 - it's kinda old now...

	- Dave Rivers -



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