From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 19: 7:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.org (adsl-64-169-104-72.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF46137B69D for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:07:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D4C63BA2B4; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:07:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:07:58 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mikel King Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: passwd sync Message-ID: <20010130190758.U54217@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3A76BA15.447E5810@ocsinternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QHhm1I6mwQR20oIa" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A76BA15.447E5810@ocsinternet.com>; from mikel@ocsinternet.com on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:56:53AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --QHhm1I6mwQR20oIa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:56:53AM -0500, Mikel King wrote: > Sorry for the cross post but...here's the deal...I have a system with a > bunch of users on it, and we are looking to do a major upgrade box and > all. is there an easy way to say setup the new box first and then import > the password account info from the old box while preserving the > passwords? Yeah, save and restore /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd, /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. Kris --QHhm1I6mwQR20oIa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6d4GOWry0BWjoQKURAmCOAJ92Ltqpwp1EqRs1s9Vd2W9IdQjaMwCghFMT pxbdReFamVTmE6PZM/gfwEI= =W3Y2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QHhm1I6mwQR20oIa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message