Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:10 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct? Message-ID: <20100311054110.GA11675@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said: > I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 server to a newer 8.0 > server (different box). This is what I did: > > copied the '/etc/master.passwd' from old server to '/etc/master.passwd' > on new server then ran: > > pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd && pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd > > It seems to work, but is this correct? I'd hate to miss somethign before > it goes online. Yep, that should work. Don't forget to update /etc/groups too. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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