From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 7:16:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F70237B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:16:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lucas@slb.to) Received: (qmail 32729 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Feb 2001 15:16:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:16:35 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Thomas Uhrfelt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving userbase from a 4.0 -> 4.2 FreeBSD system Message-ID: <20010221091635.B4793@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <01C09C11.1E58FF60.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01C09C11.1E58FF60.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>; from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:18:08PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have purchased and installed a new box with all the applications > we use on our normal FBSD box... How would I go about moving all > the useraccounts (including passwords, which I do not know myself) > over to the new system... Is it just a matter of moving the > /etc/password file over in singleuser mode or? You'll need /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd. Both files should be owned by root/wheel, the former mode 0644, the latter mode 0600. Of course, you'll also need to move home directories, mail spools, anything else owned by your individual users. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message