Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:25:37 +1000 From: "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net> To: <bv@wjv.com>, "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> Cc: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@metrics.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Migrating users Message-ID: <003c01c15e86$4a3c50e0$0400a8c0@MEGALITH> References: <6B3C6B6F7AA2D511A35E0080C86993435C7B@syncro.metrics.com> <005201c15e51$10130b50$0d00a8c0@alexus> <20011026185822.B9151@wjv.com>
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Also don't forget to move the /etc/group file across as well as the default setup when using adduser is to give each user their own group. Cheers, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Vermillion" <bill@wjv.com> To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> Cc: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@metrics.com>; <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:58 AM Subject: Re: Migrating users > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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