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Old September 7th, 2002, 02:17 PM
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Migrating to freebsd
i'm moving my main server off linux and onto freebsd, but we are still developing under linux clients, everything should work the same under freebsd?
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Well, depend on.... If you want to bring Linux accounts to BSD, then you will have to tweak the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to FreeBSD's /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd..
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Make sure you enable Linux Compatibility Mode.
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Well, depend on.... If you want to bring Linux accounts to BSD, then you will have to tweak the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to FreeBSD's /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd..

Wouldn't yp/nis or some other centralized password system (e.g., LDAP) do the job?

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