Re: migrating from freebsd-4.10 to openbsd 3.6

[Alec Berryman <alec_(_at_)_thened_(_dot_)_net>]

begin  quotation of John on 2004-12-11 14:58:32 +0000:

> I want to blat my freebsd box and install openbsd but I need to                 
> preserve their /home dirs. There's about 70 users.

If you're using UFS2, you might want to just tar /home up, nuke the
partition, and then replace. 

> They also need their usernames/passwords preserved. Googling has drawn a        
> blank (most of the advice is for moving from linux to freebsd).

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#passwd