On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 emre@visual-cortex.vsrc.uab.edu wrote:

> I have a linux mail server that I want to switch over to a NetBSD
> machine.

Great!

> In order to do that, I need to add the passwd file on
> the linux machine to the NetBSD machine.  What's the best way to
> do this?  Just add the entries of passwd to passwd on NetBSD and
> shadow to master.passwd on NetBSD?

The master.passwd and shadow formats are different.

I just answered a similar question on this list a few days ago.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2001/04/03/0006.html

> What about the home directories?

Just copy them over. I have used scp and rsync to do this several times.

Good luck,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/