Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:51:59 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Lewis Watson <lists@visionsix.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to New Server.. Passwd Questions Message-ID: <3FCABADF.5090001@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c3b7bd$2eb54740$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net> References: <000801c3b7bd$2eb54740$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net>
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Lewis Watson wrote: >I am moving to a new server and trying to maintain user,uid, and gid info. >I have the entire /etc directory tar'd and am wondering when I get to the >new server what I need as far as to maintain the user info files. I am >thinking passwd, master.passwd, and group. After I move these files I run >pwd_mkdb - p /etc/master.passwd. Is there any need to copy spwd.db and >pwd.db? If I understand it correctly these will be created/updated when I >run pwd_mkdb. > >Also, is there a better way to sync these files from one server to >another? >Thanks, >Lewis > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > You could use dd to mirror the disks. Thats assuming you want to copy everything. -Frank
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