From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 4:58:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7AA37B8B2 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 04:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B78DA838; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:58:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74267540E; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:58:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:58:49 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Dave Wilson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replication of user accounts In-Reply-To: <020501bfaf56$a6f05600$112821c4@sai.co.za> Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* 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, 26 Apr 2000, Dave Wilson wrote: > Is there a way to replicate users from one FreeBSD 3.4 Box to another one? > Even if I have to do it manually it will not be a problem, ie copying the > /etc/passwd across from on server to another. > What files are needed, apart from /etc/passwd to replicate the user accounts > across ? Dont forget home directories, /var/mail/* and /var/cron/tabs/*. You may need /etc/group as well... Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message