Copy the /etc/passwd from the SCO box over to the Linux box in /tmp and do
something like this:


for i in `cat /tmp/passwd|cut -d":" -f1`;do useradd $i;done


man useradd for more options (such as home dir's, etc)..


Regards,
Mike Cantrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Warner" <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: passwd files


> I have tried this but it doesnt seem to work.  I can't
> really even find any good docs on this I have skimmed through
> several howtos that I thought might give a clue.  I am still
> doing some testing and rtfming I just really dont want to have
> to change passwords for over 300 users by hand.
>
> Bill Warner
>
> > I'm gonna say just copy the files :-) we've taken entrioes from linux to
> > solaris to BSD to....and have had no issues, so I'd imagine you wouldn't
> > :-)
> >
> >
> > _______________
> > Jonathan Furrer
> > jonny@jofu.com
> > http://www.jofu.com/
> >
> > On 10 Aug 2000, Bill Warner wrote:
> >
> > > I am currently converting a SCO system over to Linux and
> > > am wondering if there is a way to keep the password and
> > > shadow files without having to recreate over 300 users.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of the least painfull way of doing this?
> > >
> > > Bill Warner
> > >
> > >
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