Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:33:59 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com> To: Matiss Elsbergs <matiss@bkc.lv> Cc: alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating users Message-ID: <20011026133358.F7009@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <006901c15e40$a808c730$0300a8c0@weird>; from matiss@bkc.lv on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:07:12PM %2B0300 References: <FOEJJHFHNBIAKMKHNKLIEEFMCDAA.matiss@bkc.lv> <004301c15e2d$210e2940$0d00a8c0@alexus> <006901c15e40$a808c730$0300a8c0@weird>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:07:12PM +0300, Matiss Elsbergs thus sprach: > I don't want to.. I want a brand new system (it's the same box, hdd will be > new..) > > So is there a way? Yes. Take your old /etc/master.passwd and compare it to the new one BEFORE you add any users to the new one. See that there are no conflicting accounts. There should not be as all users should come after the 1000 UID. Then cut the first part out of the old one. Use vipw on the new system and read the old file in at the tail. Also on the old system use your favorite archive tool, tar, cpio, or whatever, and take the user directories and move them to the new system. That way everything will match. On BSD it's a piece of cake. I've moved SysV password files after combing the passwd and shadow files and adding fields to match the extras ones in BSD. That was a pain But migrating from one edition of BSD to another is easy. I've done this on mail-servers - the biggest pain was moving the users from Irix to BSD. Later movement on BSDs systems was easy. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> > To: "Matiss Elsbergs" <matiss@bkc.lv>; <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 5:47 PM > Subject: Re: Migrating users > > > > just do upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 > > > > that's all > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Matiss Elsbergs" <matiss@bkc.lv> > > To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:25 AM > > Subject: Migrating users > > > > > > > Hello there, > > > > > > I want to delete an 4.3 installation, and install 4.4. Question: is > there > > a > > > way to move all users to the new system, without adding them by hand? Is > > it > > > possible? > > > > > > rgds, Matiss Elsbergs > > > Astranet IS > > > Systems Administrator > > > matiss@bkc.lv > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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