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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9118.0. "migrating /etc/passwd from BSDiUNIX to Digital UNIX" by VAOU09::LAM () Tue Mar 11 1997 19:20

    My customer is migrating from BSDi UNIX to Digital UNIX 4.0B. He has
    10,000 users of UID and passwd to move, but copying the /etc/passwd to
    Digital UNIX did not work. The users are not able to log in. We believe
    the password encryption is different on the  two UNIXes. Are there any
    tools we can use to migrate the /etc/passwd file? BSDi does not have
    NIS Server yet, so using NIS is not an option. Thanks for any help.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
9118.1	try this first	ALFAM7::GOSEJACOB		`Wed Mar 12 1997 07:10`	7
	re .0 Never tried this myself but first thing to check: did you have the passwd shaddow files on the Digital UNIX machine (/etc/passwd.pag, /etc/passwd.dir)? Then a 'cd /etc; mkpasswd passwd' might be the simple solution to your problem. Martin
9118.2		netrix.lkg.dec.com::thomas	The Code Warrior	`Wed Mar 12 1997 09:44`	11
	The problem is that the BSDI passwd file have a few extra fields that you need to remove. root:password:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh ^^^^ you need to remove this Note that you need to copy /etc/master.passwd, not /etc/passwd (since /etc/passwd doesn't have any passwords). Note that BSDI 3.0 has NIS support.
9118.3	tried it but did not work	VAOU09::LAM		`Thu Mar 13 1997 18:56`	4
	Thanks for the reply. We have already tried .1 and .2; nothing works. BSDi does not have the NIS server, just the client. So we can't try setting up the BSDi as a NISserver to serve the passwd to the alpha either. Any help appreciate! thanks