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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:35:15 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: Mark <mw@lanfear.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Copying users
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:15:25AM -0700, Mark wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> 	I'm trying to copy users from one FreeBSD server running 3.4 to
> another running 4.3.  
> 
> 	Just copying the lines from /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd
> seems to set everything up correctly -- except for passwords -- I can
> never get the old one to work on the new machine.
> 
> 	can this be done, or has the format changed, and I'm just
> screwed?
> 
> 	thanks,
> 	mark.

You probably forgot to rebuild the .db files from which the information
is actually taken.

Solution: Use vipw(8) to edit /etc/master.passwd.
vipw will automatically rebuild all the other files when you are
finished.




-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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