Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:37:19 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ? Message-ID: <7cbadc870507060437193ae5f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7cbadc870507050726369edadd@mail.gmail.com> References: <7cbadc870507050726369edadd@mail.gmail.com>
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To answer my own posting. Simply copy(keeping correct permissions) /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group to the new system making sure you have a backup of the original if anything goes wrong. Then run pwd_mkdb -p /etc/passwd which will update /etc/pwd.db, spwd.db. I then rsync'ed all home directories and all is well. Nelis On 7/5/05, Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts > from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD 4.x system ? We're > sticking to 4.x due to legacy issues(Netware) in case I get asked. > Didn't see answer to this in the FAQ's or Handbook and google answers > seem sketchy. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > Nelis >
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