From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 26 15:58:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wanlogistics.net (mail.wanlogistics.net [63.209.114.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C9F37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (spdsl-033.wanlogistics.net [63.209.115.33]) by mail.wanlogistics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05756; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:58:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill@wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9QMwNI09356; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:58:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:58:22 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: alexus Cc: "Haapanen, Tom" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating users Message-ID: <20011026185822.B9151@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <6B3C6B6F7AA2D511A35E0080C86993435C7B@syncro.metrics.com> <005201c15e51$10130b50$0d00a8c0@alexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005201c15e51$10130b50$0d00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:04:39PM -0400 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:04:39PM -0400, alexus thus sprach: > well duh.. ofcourse password files and home directories are the key! > > as it was mention earlier we only was talking about /etc/master.passwd > > and i said this one file is not enough > maybe you've done it on linux... but in bsd you need to save/copy: > home directory(s) > /etc/passwd > /etc/master.passwd > /etc/pwd.db > /etc/spwd.db If you've installed a new system you will no doubt notice there are more priveledge/system entries [UID less than 1000] than in older version. BIND for instance has it's own UID/GID as it now lives in a sandbox. I'd just take the real users from the old file and append them to the new master.passwd. Using vipw then your pwd.db will be created automatically. If you move those to the new system you might find that you have system type accounts that are not in the pwd.db. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message