Re: Moving from BSDi

["Scott St. John" <scott@scottah.com>]

At 05:39 PM 10/28/2002 +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Debian supports both DES and MD5 hashing of passwords.  If the BSD passwords
> for your accounts are in one of those formats then it'll be trivial to
> convert them.
>
> You could create a test account and set a password, then post the lines from
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow here and we'll try and devise some sort of
> proceedure for you...

I just found a script that may do this and I copied it below.  I have 
considered using
Postfix with MySQL, is there a way to get the accounts into MySQL even though
the passwords are encrypted?

Here is the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Simple FreeBSD-to-Linux password converter
#  -- Linux must be using shadow passwords
#
# Nickolai Zeldovich, 1998
# http://kolya.net/, kolya@zepa.net
#
# Config stuff:
#
# "/etc/passwd" on a FreeBSD machine
$FREEBSD_PASSWD="passwd";
# "/etc/master.passwd" in a FreeBSD machine
$FREEBSD_MASTER="./master.passwd";
# Where you want the Linux version of passwd file
$LINUX_PASSWD="./linux-passwd";
# Where you want the Linux version of shadow file
$LINUX_SHADOW="./linux-shadow";
# Go for it..
open(FM,"$FREEBSD_MASTER");
while(<FM>) {
    chop $_;
    ($user,$cryptpw,@etc)= split(/\:/);
    $pw{$user}=$cryptpw;
}
close(FM);
open(FP,"$FREEBSD_PASSWD");
open(LP,">$LINUX_PASSWD");
open(LS,">$LINUX_SHADOW");
$count = 999;
while(<FP>) {
    $count++;
    chop $_;
    ($user,$star,$uid,$gid,$gecos,$home,$shell)=split(/\:/);
    print LP "$user:x:$count:100:$gecos:/home/$user:/bin/bash\n";
    print LS "$user:$pw{$user}:10000:0:99999:7:::\n";
}
close(FP);
close(LP);
close(LS);