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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:08:02 +0100
From:      Jonathan <jonathan@sirtis.org.uk>
To:        Richard Beyer <richard@enterprise.another.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving users
Message-ID:  <3EED7AE2.5010602@sirtis.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20030616173744.U52834@enterprise.another.com.au>
References:  <20030616143553.K52474@enterprise.another.com.au> <20030616053322.GA16347@ei.bzerk.org> <20030616173744.U52834@enterprise.another.com.au>

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Richard Beyer wrote:
> Excellent!  Thanks Ruben.
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:40:02PM +1000, Richard Beyer typed:
[snip]>>>I've added a test user to "Server-Source" and a test user to
>>>"Server-Destination" and copied the password hash from
>>>/etc/master.password on "Server-Source" and pasted it into master.password
>>>on "Server-Destination", but the login fails.
>>
>>Have you rebuild the password database after modifying master.passwd ?
>>
>>pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

Instead of editing master.passwd directly, you might want to consider 
using "vipw" instead, which will do both the edit and the password file 
rebuild, saving your keyboard from wear :)

- J



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