Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:55:04 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving user accounts from one system to another Message-ID: <200302131355.04993.will@unfoldings.net>
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Does anybody know of a quick and (relatively) easy way of moving user accounts between two machines? We have two mail servers, one if which hosts mail for the ISP's domain, and another for several domains belonging to their customers. The machine hosting for the customers is being taken down because it is old and pretty much redundant, the other server is much more powerful and will just handle it better. I need to move (roughly 200) user accounts from the old server to the other machine. I can't just copy master.password and the data, the UIDs used on the old server may conflict and clash with UIDs on the other server. Does anybody know of a way to do this without creating all the accounts manually and "cutting-and-pasting" the encrypted passwords between the machines? Any sort of automation will help save some time, so all sugestions are welcome :) Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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