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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:40:35 +0100
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        Michael Schoensee <michael@tuxcom.net.mx>
Cc:        Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, Matt Delaine <mdelaine@intsolut.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User Accounts
Message-ID:  <3A788653.D0FC8049@nisser.com>
References:  <000a01c08b99$61646340$1d01a8c0@intsolut2.com> <20010131120442.B5023@northernbrewer.com> <3A7855C7.49E9B996@tuxcom.net.mx>

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Michael Schoensee wrote:
> 
> Christopher Farley wrote:
> >
> > Matt Delaine (mdelaine@intsolut.com) wrote:
> >
> > > What is the easiest way to move user accounts from one machine to another?
> > >
> >
> > Apart from managing user account centrally with NIS, you can copy
> > /etc/master.password, /etc/passwd, etc/pwd.db, /etc/spwd.db to the
> > new machine.
> 
> And /etc/group

And something with tar and find to collect all those files that
got scattered in the diaspora of active use.

Roelof

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