Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:00:52 -0700 From: "Patrick O. Fish" <patrick@pwhsnet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rob O'Donnell" <robert@aphnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: moving users? Message-ID: <00a601c1fb79$ab3e83a0$0300a8c0@zeus> References: <3.0.1.32.20020514113021.015b0110@aph2k>
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Yes, quite simple, i just did this a few days ago. Copy these files from your old machine: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group and put them on your new system (i did this in single-user mode), then run pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob O'Donnell" <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:30 AM Subject: moving users? > > Hi all.. a simple question, but I hope it's an easy answer.. > > I've got a 3.4-release box that's used simply as an email server. I'd like > to move the several dozen user accounts off it onto a new(ish) 4.5-release > based box. > > Is there a simple way to extract the user account details off one machine > and create them on the other? I imagine that I can just copy the mailboxes > over as normal files once the users are replicated over.. > > Many thanks, > > Rob. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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