From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 8: 5: 5 2003 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 5700F37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE1043F75 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:05:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2HG50Tb010992; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:05:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E75F21D.8010207@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:04:45 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JOSE D HERNANDEZ-TORRES Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need information References: <3E757A9C.1472.1A9705@localhost> <3E759996.18981.939A82@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E759996.18981.939A82@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sorry, but I'm going to be out of the office the rest of today. Please read the last line of my original reply again. JOSE D HERNANDEZ-TORRES wrote: > I copied the master.passwd and passwd files from the /etc dir on the > old server. Then I run the pwd_mkdb command after I do that I tar > the /home directry from the old server and untart it in the new > server. The error message occurs when a user logs in and the > error is permission denied, to me seems that I am losing the > permisions from my users. > Thank you > > > On 17 Mar 2003 at 8:44, Bill Moran wrote: > > >>JOSE D HERNANDEZ-TORRES wrote: >> >>>I am migrating users from a Free BSD system 4.2 in to a 4.7 release. I already tried the >>>documentation that is in the free BDS questions site, however I have not being able to >>>do it. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. >> >>We'll need a little more information before we can help you. >>1) What steps are you taking? >>2) Exactly at what point is it failing? >>3) What are the exact error messages you are getting? >> >>Make sure you back up the server before doing anything. While the process >>is very safe, it can be a little confusing if you've never done it >>before, and data loss can result. >>Please use "reply-all" to keep this conversion on the mailing list. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message