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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:24:39 +0200
From:      Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine
Message-ID:  <4AC74287.6010805@laverenz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20091002091507.GA19609@torus.slightlystrange.org>
References:  <80173.56174.qm@web56206.mail.re3.yahoo.com>	<200910012345.n91NjCcK048650@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20091002091507.GA19609@torus.slightlystrange.org>

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Daniel Bye schrieb:

> Or copy /etc/passwd from the old machine to the new one, and run 
> pwd_mkdb, which is essentially what vipw does anyway.

This would not work, the file that contains the passwords and that 
should be copied is /etc/master.passwd. pwd_mkdb generates the 
/etc/passwd from this file. /etc/passwd dows not contain the encrypted 
passwords.

Uwe




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