Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:34:38 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password file migration help Message-ID: <200801310934.38885.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <47A0CA04.7060100@calarts.edu> References: <47A0CA04.7060100@calarts.edu>
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On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:03, Sean Murphy wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and would like to migrate users in the
> password file with UIDs 3000 through 5000 to a FreeBSD 6.3 system on a
> running on a separate box. Is there a way to export just those users?
I'd probably sort /etc/master.passwd and pipe through awk:
sort -t ':' -k3,3n /etc/master.passwd | \
awk -F ':' '$3 ~ /^3[0-9][0-9][0-9]/, $3 ~ /^5/ { print }'
This will sort /etc/master.passwd numerically on the third field, uid, and
then give you all the lines starting with the first one where the uid is a
3 followed by at least three digits, up to and including the first one after
that where the first digit of the uid is a 5.
If you capture the output you should be able to merge it on the new host.
Jonathan
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