Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 17:03:54 +0100 From: Michael Doyle <relyod@indigo.ie> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating User information (HELP) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981008170354.009185a0@pop.indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981008100551.2227C-100000@demios.scl.ameslab .gov> References: <3.0.5.32.19981008141352.009494f0@pop.indigo.ie>
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>> I want to replace the old server with the new server, but to do so, I need to >> set up or copy all the user accounts on the old server onto the new server. >> >> Is there any way to do this? >> >> I tried copying the passwd, master.passwd, passwd.db, spwd.db and group files >> to the new server but this just locked me out of the system - none of >> the passwords worked. (restoring the old files put things back the way >> they were) > >It should have worked; do you have the same links for /usr/lib/libcrypt* >on your new machine as you did on your old machine? A common problem is >for a "new" machine to not have the /usr/lib/libdescrypt* libraries >installed, which are required if the passwords were encrypted on a machine >that had the libdescrypt* libraries. > Hmm... each machine is as installed from the release CD-ROMS (old = 2.2.5, new=2.2.7) and in each case I did not install the US security patches, so it is quite possible that the lybcrypt* files are different. >> How can I duplicate the users onto the new machine? >> (They are connected by a LAN, at the moment NFS is not installed on either, >> but FTP is working on both) > >If you have the disk space, you could tar up the home directories on the >old machine, FTP the tar file to the new machine, and untar the home >directories on the new machine. > Yup, I'm sure I could do this. the old machine has about 100M free, the new one has 6G free, and all but two or 3 of the home directories are simply stubs - because the machine in question is a Web Proxy/POP3 server the majority of users only ever use Eudora and IE/Netscape to interract with it. >Otherwise, if you can "rsh" as root between the two machines, you might be >able to do: > > tar cf - /usr/home | rsh newmachine "tar -C /usr/home -x -v -f -" > Thanks... Mike <><=====================================================><> Michael Doyle phone: +353-1-661-0588 Network Administrator http://www.co-operation-ireland.ie/ Co-Operation North E-mail: relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie (0ffice) relyod@indigo.ie (Personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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