[UCLA-LUG] linux and SunOS

[Erik Hovland]

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On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:01:46PM -0400, Matt Helsley wrote:
> 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.
> >=20
> > 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?

This is what I meant by not taking the 'system' users from one OS to
another. The uids for those users are usually different. Otherwise it
is generally safe to use human user's uids as long as one used common
sense when creating the users on SunOS, (using 500 or 1000 as the
first uid as opposed to using 30).

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Erik Hovland
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