Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:43:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsdquestions@hotmail.com (FreeBSD Questions) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsdquestions@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdisting passwd from BSD/OS to FreeBSD 3.1 Message-ID: <199904020543.AAA09357@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990402053404.1081.qmail@hotmail.com> from FreeBSD Questions at "Apr 1, 99 09:34:04 pm"
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FreeBSD Questions wrote, > "Crist J. Clark" wrote, > >I wouldn't trust moving the *.db files across platforms. I do not know > >if it is your problem, but you might want to consider only moving the > >text files and rebuilding the db files natively on FreeBSD. > > Thanks, just sending the text files and then running pwd_mkdb > works. But, the man page warns of concurrency problems if > the necessary locking is not performed. Unfortunately, I'm no > programmer. I'll work on creating a script to handle the locking > and hopefully I won't overlook something obvious. > > Is there a better way to migrate the user information from > BSD/OS to FreeBSD? My original impression was that this is a one-time thing. But I am suspecting I was wrong. Are you going to continue to use both machines? Have you considered NIS? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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