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Date:      20 Apr 2004 14:20:57 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Brian Sheehan <brian.sheehan@ul.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Migrating user accounts from linux to freebsd
Message-ID:  <44oepmqzna.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <40854E9E.7020802@ul.ie>
References:  <40753CC0.60104@ul.ie> <20040408143808.H30924@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <44u0zu4jmq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <40854E9E.7020802@ul.ie>

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Brian Sheehan <brian.sheehan@ul.ie> writes:

> 8) On both the linux box and the freebsd one, each user has its own
> group (of the same name of the user). For any users migrated from the
> linux machine to the bsd one, I also copied the corresponding entries
> from linux:/etc/group to freebsd:/etc/group. I hadn't seen anyone
> suggest doing this, but I can't see why it would be problem, and it
> seems to work fine.

adduser(8) does exactly this (by default).



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