is it possible to copy pw from /sbin/ in FreeBSD to /sbin/ in Linux

Ahmed El Gohary

Ahmed El Gohary

I was wondering if it's possible to copy this file to Linux hence when I type it on the terminal app it returns unknown command so I copied it from FreeBSD 12.1 to RHEL8/Fedora 31 and changed its permission to 777 i've copied it /sbin/ and /usr/sbin/ but it returns sh: /usr/sbin/pw: No such file or directory is there any way to make it works under Linux
 
Short answer, no.

Longer answer, FreeBSD and Linux are two different operating systems. Besides using a different way to call functions, the functions themselves are different too. And I'm not even going to mention the fact that the password databases are completely different too.
 
You would also find that copying executables from RHEL7 -> RHEL8 would probably not work either; they use different versions of the C runtimes and countless other libraries and system executables are probably not compiled in a static manner.
 
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