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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Felix Orondo <felix@iconnect.co.ke>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Migarting Users....
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201159400.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37159668.7416FC33@iconnect.co.ke>

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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Felix Orondo wrote:

> 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.

Run pwd_mkdb to build the password databases.  The text versions are for
reference only.  Make a backup first!

> My suspicion is the encryption schemes are different across the
> systems.BSDI ver 2.1 and FreeBDS 2.2.5


Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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