Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 05:08:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@hyperreal.org> To: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ? Message-ID: <20050706120825.37140.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <7cbadc870507060437193ae5f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > 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. I would add (as this just came up with one of my users today) that you will probably also want to copy /var/cron/tabs to the new system, lest everyone lose their crontabs.
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