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Subject: Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?
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Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
> To answer my own posting. Simply copy(keeping correct permissions)
> /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group to the new system
> making sure you have a backup of the original if anything goes wrong.
> Then run pwd_mkdb -p /etc/passwd which will update /etc/pwd.db,
> spwd.db. I then rsync'ed all home directories and all is well.

I would add (as this just came up with one of my users today) that
you will probably also want to copy /var/cron/tabs to the new system,
lest everyone lose their crontabs.