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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:33:22 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org>
To:        Richard Beyer <richard@enterprise.another.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving users
Message-ID:  <20030616053322.GA16347@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030616143553.K52474@enterprise.another.com.au>
References:  <20030616143553.K52474@enterprise.another.com.au>

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:40:02PM +1000, Richard Beyer typed:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to move users from one machine to another and keep their passwords
> intact.
> 
> I've added a test user to "Server-Source" and a test user to
> "Server-Destination" and copied the password hash from
> /etc/master.password on "Server-Source" and pasted it into master.password
> on "Server-Destination", but the login fails.
 
Have you rebuild the password database after modifying master.passwd ?

pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

> I've also searched the archive with no luck.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
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