Hello Russell.

05 Jan 10 21:34, you wrote to me:

 SW>> What do you do with the usernames/passwords being in the system's
 SW>> passwd file, and file permissions?

 RT> See no reason why those also cannot be moved, to the new system, or
 RT> the relevant parts, copy/pasted into the new one, as required, but I
[...]
 RT> Just be sure that you use the same hash scheme for the creation and
 RT> maintenace of the pam files ...


Thanks for the tips.. I'm going to take an image of the machine, and do some 
test's using Sun's "Virtual Box" setup before even atempting to
do it with the 
real deal.

My bbs machine needs a majour update/upgrade.



Stephen

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