Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:13:52 +0100 From: Michael Doyle <relyod@indigo.ie> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Migrating User information (HELP) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981008141352.009494f0@pop.indigo.ie>
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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
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