From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 13:44:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A8D37B6A3 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA55686; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:40:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3A788653.D0FC8049@nisser.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:40:35 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Schoensee Cc: Christopher Farley , Matt Delaine , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User Accounts References: <000a01c08b99$61646340$1d01a8c0@intsolut2.com> <20010131120442.B5023@northernbrewer.com> <3A7855C7.49E9B996@tuxcom.net.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Schoensee wrote: > > Christopher Farley wrote: > > > > Matt Delaine (mdelaine@intsolut.com) wrote: > > > > > What is the easiest way to move user accounts from one machine to another? > > > > > > > Apart from managing user account centrally with NIS, you can copy > > /etc/master.password, /etc/passwd, etc/pwd.db, /etc/spwd.db to the > > new machine. > > And /etc/group And something with tar and find to collect all those files that got scattered in the diaspora of active use. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message