From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 3:55:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64ABF37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7AFA43FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18jHxo-0003lX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:55:36 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18jHxP-0003lP-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:55:12 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18jHxK-0000Et-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:55:06 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18jHxJ-00009M-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:55:05 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving user accounts from one system to another Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:55:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302131355.04993.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18jHxP-0003lP-00*5jq8PaCdMr2* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does anybody know of a quick and (relatively) easy way of moving user accounts between two machines? We have two mail servers, one if which hosts mail for the ISP's domain, and another for several domains belonging to their customers. The machine hosting for the customers is being taken down because it is old and pretty much redundant, the other server is much more powerful and will just handle it better. I need to move (roughly 200) user accounts from the old server to the other machine. I can't just copy master.password and the data, the UIDs used on the old server may conflict and clash with UIDs on the other server. Does anybody know of a way to do this without creating all the accounts manually and "cutting-and-pasting" the encrypted passwords between the machines? Any sort of automation will help save some time, so all sugestions are welcome :) Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message