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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