From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 9:49:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from asmodeus.diabolis.net (209-6-187-14.c6-0.wth-ubr1.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.6.187.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4FF37C21E for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Received: from asmodeus (asmodeus [192.168.2.6]) by asmodeus.diabolis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17697; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:44:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:44:58 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson X-Sender: bunicula@asmodeus.diabolis.net To: Justin Boss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backing up user names and groops In-Reply-To: <20000308172729.11534.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Justin Boss wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to backup all user and group. I'm bring up > a new server and I tared the user directories but UID# is different when I > add the user back. So then I have to change the owner. Is there files that I > can just bring over form the old server? user data is in /etc/master.passwd group data /etc/group those files can be copied from one system to another, and will get your user accounts moved over. when you copy master.passwd, make sure to rebuild your user database (man pwd_mkdb) brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message