Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:16:35 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving userbase from a 4.0 -> 4.2 FreeBSD system Message-ID: <20010221091635.B4793@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <01C09C11.1E58FF60.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>; from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:18:08PM %2B0100 References: <01C09C11.1E58FF60.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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> I have purchased and installed a new box with all the applications > we use on our normal FBSD box... How would I go about moving all > the useraccounts (including passwords, which I do not know myself) > over to the new system... Is it just a matter of moving the > /etc/password file over in singleuser mode or? You'll need /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd. Both files should be owned by root/wheel, the former mode 0644, the latter mode 0600. Of course, you'll also need to move home directories, mail spools, anything else owned by your individual users. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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