Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:34:25 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ? Message-ID: <7cbadc87050705233437c2206@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44zmt12dbh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <7cbadc870507050726369edadd@mail.gmail.com> <44zmt12dbh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 05 Jul 2005 16:44:02 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> writes: >=20 > > What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts > > from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD 4.x system ? We're > > sticking to 4.x due to legacy issues(Netware) in case I get asked. > > Didn't see answer to this in the FAQ's or Handbook and google answers > > seem sketchy. >=20 > The FAQ entry titled "How do I move my system over to my huge new > disk?" should be apropos. >=20 Unfortunately it doesn't. I specifically said "user accounts" because that's the only thing I want to move over to the new system. Using dump and restore wouldn't be applicable in this scenario as many things in the file systems are different. I was thinking more along the lines of copying over the password files and using pwd_mkdb to rebuild the db's but wasn't entirely sure about the whole process. For the home directories I'm just using rsync to copy over the data to the new system. Nelis
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