Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:03:16 -0400 From: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@eagle.ca> To: "Pablo Quintana" <quintana@netsys.hn> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Password file saved? Message-ID: <02e901c0cdc2$c49da870$0f01a8c0@phantom> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010425133119.00a22760@netsys.hn>
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> I'm trying to update a FreeBSD 2.2.8 server to 4.2 R. My question is if I > format the drive and start from scratch, can I save the password file to > add the users but not retype the passwords? take /etc/master.passwd and save it somewhere. Once you format and load 4.2R, put your saved copy of /etc/master.passwd onto the new system then run: pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd You're probably using DES encryption on 2.2.8 so you'll need to tell the new box to use that as well. You'll want to add: :passwd_format=des:\ to the default entry in /etc/login.conf and then run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf (probably in single user mode) You may to go over some of the "stock" entries in your original master.passwd and the new one. I just did the same type of thing last November on 3 of our machines. I just used the top of the "new" master.passwd and copied the bottom section of the old master.passwd (minus the stock entries at at the top). > Another question, it is OK to upgrade the binaries from /stand/sysinstall > to 4.2 R, or it would be better to format the drive? I formatted and started over. Actually, we built a new machine so I had the advantage of having the old machine there in case I forgot to save something. But if you don't have anything too massive to save and bring forward, start fresh! -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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