From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 8:55:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.interlinks.net (incoming.interlinks.net [209.5.77.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8FE37B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from custinfo (custinfo.interlinks.net [207.107.160.15]) by ns2.interlinks.net (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6) with SMTP id fBCGtbW18632 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:55:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000701c1832e$012d3a00$0fa06bcf@custinfo> From: "Bill Sandiford" To: Subject: Migrating users from one machine to another Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:56:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi : I have a mail server with approx 2000 users that is starting to die. I have built a new machine (new hard drives etc.) and need to migrate all of the users from the old machine to the new. I have looked for an online resource that explains the process but was unable to find one. I am assuming that all I need to do is copy the follow files from the old machine to the new, but I am afraid that I may miss one /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/groups I also believe that I will have to write some sort of script to rebuild the /usr/home directory tree. Can anyone shed some light on this. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message