[UCLA-LUG] linux and SunOS

[Matt Helsley]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think that will be an issue.  The issues I see are:
> * Transferring of the data... shouldn't be *that* bad... just be
>   careful...
> * User shell configuraations (.cshrc, .profile, etc.) will be off
>   from what they were in SunOS4... your users should expect to have
>   to fix this.
Uhm, maybe this was implicity described in your reply, but UID assignment
is probably also of concern. Do Linux and SunOS partition UIDs in the same
way?

Good luck.