From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 21:43:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D18614FB1 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:43:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA09357; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:43:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904020543.AAA09357@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: rdisting passwd from BSD/OS to FreeBSD 3.1 In-Reply-To: <19990402053404.1081.qmail@hotmail.com> from FreeBSD Questions at "Apr 1, 99 09:34:04 pm" To: freebsdquestions@hotmail.com (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:43:00 -0500 (EST) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsdquestions@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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