[UCLA-LUG] linux and SunOS

[Tigran]

many thanks to all
this helped much

At 05:25 PM 5/2/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
> > >
> > > 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).
>
>E
>
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