Subject: Re: Migrating from FreeBSD to NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Karsten Kruse <tecneeq@gmx.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/11/2005 17:27:07
Roberto Pereyra wrote:

> I'm migrating from FreeBSD 4.10 to NetBSD 2.0.2.
> 
> I'm using MD5 password encryption with NetBSD.
> 
> How are the best (or easy) way of migrate the user and groups database
> (/etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and others) ?

I recommend vipw for that. A little bit copy and paste should do it. You
can change the crypt-method in /etc/passwd.conf. Both, vipw and
passwd.conf have manpages.

Karsten

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