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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:52:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Terry Witherspoon <t403403@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Merging two password files.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010810155251.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <F182D62g2Af0Gh331DP00003d05@hotmail.com>

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On 10-Aug-01 Terry Witherspoon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've two 3.2 Release machines serving as pop mail hosts. Due
> to a reorganization we have to merge the systems together.
> I'd like to merge the password files together without losing
> the user passwords. Anyone know how to do this on 3.2?
> 
> Thanks, TW

I'm not sure I understand the diffculty here. As I se it as long as the UIDs and
GIDs are different on the two boxes you could simply cat them together. Perhaps
it is easier to use pw to generate the accounts with a little help of an
awk-script that retrieves the data needed?

/M


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