Re: bsdi - redhat 7.3

[Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot at bsdi.com>]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:31:38 +0300 (EAT)  Lucas Odemba wrote:
> let me simply the case:
> bsdi uses - /etc/passwd & /etc/master.passwd
> redhat uses - /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow
> now suppose i'm migrating a system from bsdi to redhat, how should i
> handle the the passwd files scenario ?

Something like th script below might help
(note - not tested in full, though the output 'looks' good and should
be a reasonable starting point - no redhat box to test the output on).

I still do believe that *BSD is a much better platform for ISP-style
operations than Linux, but you pick your own poison.

Cheers,

Geert Jan

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#! /bin/bash

# Conversion tool to convert BSDI's /etc/master.passwd to files that
# can be appended to Redhat's /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.
# 
# passwd.add and shadow.add to me merged in with existing /etc/passwd
# and /etc/shadow files - please remove duplicates manually!
#
# Password expiration fields hare *NOT* converted - 
# left for future study.
#
# The output has not been tested on actual redhat machines - 
# YMMV and all that.
# 

cat /etc/master.passwd | while IFS=: read login passwd uid gid \
    class change expire gecos homedir shell; do
	echo "$login":"$passwd":10000:0:99999:7:::1
done > shadow.add


cat /etc/master.passwd | while IFS=: read login passwd uid gid \
    class change expire gecos homedir shell; do
	echo "$login":x:"$uid":"$gid":"$gecos":"$homedir":"$shell"
done > passwd.add



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