From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 19:51:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A5916A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from above.proper.com (above.proper.com [208.184.76.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3932C43D1F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [63.202.92.153] (adsl-63-202-92-153.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.92.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by above.proper.com (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1E3pBEg040161 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: phoffprop@mail.proper.com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:51:33 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Paul Hoffman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Migrating users and passwords from one system to another X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:51:36 -0000 Greetings again. I'm kinda surprised that this isn't an FAQ, but... How do I move users and passwords from a current system to a new one? Is it sufficient to move /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd, or are there other things? I'm moving from an oldish 4.8 system to a brand new 4.9 system, and want to have all the users set up on the new machine before I start rsyncing everything over so that the users and groups come out right. --Paul Hoffman