From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 26 18:26: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bofh.intranet.snsonline.net (CPE-61-9-137-28.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.137.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E37737B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MEGALITH (megalith.intranet.snsonline.net [192.168.0.4]) by bofh.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f9R1OtG37693; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:24:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-ID: <003c01c15e86$4a3c50e0$0400a8c0@MEGALITH> From: "Mark Sergeant" To: , "alexus" Cc: "Haapanen, Tom" , References: <6B3C6B6F7AA2D511A35E0080C86993435C7B@syncro.metrics.com> <005201c15e51$10130b50$0d00a8c0@alexus> <20011026185822.B9151@wjv.com> Subject: Re: Migrating users Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:25:37 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 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" To: "alexus" Cc: "Haapanen, Tom" ; 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