From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 06:19:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 06:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay01.indigo.ie (relay01.indigo.ie [194.125.133.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA25268 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 06:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from relyod@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 14688 messnum 238268 invoked from network[194.125.220.156/ts06-026.dublin.indigo.ie]); 8 Oct 1998 13:19:38 -0000 Received: from ts06-026.dublin.indigo.ie (HELO nt?dublin) (194.125.220.156) by relay01.indigo.ie (qp 14688) with SMTP; 8 Oct 1998 13:19:38 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981008141352.009494f0@pop.indigo.ie> X-Sender: relyod@pop.indigo.ie X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:13:52 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Doyle Subject: Migrating User information (HELP) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a question which will probably betray my innexperience in UNIX matters. I've got an existing FreeBSD 2.2.5 (Release) box, and I'm setting up a new FreeBSD 2.2.7 (Release) box on a newer machine with more hard disk, ram, etc. I want to replace the old server with the new server, but to do so, I need to set up or copy all the user accounts on the old server onto the new server. Is there any way to do this? I tried copying the passwd, master.passwd, passwd.db, spwd.db and group files to the new server but this just locked me out of the system - none of the passwords worked. (restoring the old files put things back the way they were) How can I duplicate the users onto the new machine? (They are connected by a LAN, at the moment NFS is not installed on either, but FTP is working on both) <><=====================================================><> Michael Doyle phone: +353-1-661-0588 Network Administrator http://www.co-operation-ireland.ie/ Co-Operation North E-mail: relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie (0ffice) relyod@indigo.ie (Personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message