[UCLA-LUG] linux and SunOS

[Erik Hovland]

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On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:04:00AM -0700, Tigran wrote:
> Hello
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> I was wondering if anybody know if it is possible to transfer accounts fr=
om=20
> a SunOS4 box to RedHat6.
> Both are running on Sparc 20

Yes, redhat6 knows about ufs so you could just mount the existing user
directories. Last I saw ext2 is not too readable by SunOS, if you want
to share partitions, those partitions will have to be ufs. I can't
remember if linux can read/write ufs. But at least read only.

The crypt() for SunOS and linux is the same (at least to you), so you
can just copy and paste the passwd entries from one OS' /etc/passwd
file to another. Pay careful attention as to what users you transfer.
The system users for either OS is very different (nobody, lp, ...),
you only want to get the human users. YMMV.

E

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Erik Hovland
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