From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 19 18:14:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA06968 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (metriclient-12.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA06961 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA08748; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:13:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:13:50 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Chris Bura cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup server In-Reply-To: <199702200040.QAA05122@main.netcorps.com> Message-ID: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Chris Bura wrote: > > We have a backup server and are wondering which files in the /etc > directory of the main server need to be copied so that username, password > and groups are all identical on the backup. > > This is what we copied. But we're still getting "unknown user"s > > /etc/ > group > master.passwd > pwd.db > passwd > login.access > > What are we missing? spwd.db... that is the file that contains the encrypted passwords... read pwd_mkdb(8) for more info on these files... you can use pwd_mkdb(8) to create {pwd.db,spwd.db,passwd} from master.passwd... hope this helps... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)