From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 17:40:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01085 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01079 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-wat.sentex.net (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA00668; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:39:53 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk ("Greg Quinlan") Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passwords in FreeBSD 2.2.7 do not work in 3.0 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:45:42 GMT Message-ID: <366f26dd.878902244@mail.sentex.net> References: <01be23a9$9a772fa0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <01be23a9$9a772fa0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:24:56 -0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >/etc/passwd >/etc/master.passwd >/etc/spwd.db >/etc/pwd.db All you want to import are the non system userid's in /etc/master.passwd Do a vipw on your new machine, read in the user accounts, and that should be it... Make sure you also have DES installed on your new machine if it was installed on your old machine. Other than that, it will work fine. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message