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Subject: Re: Moving to New Server.. Passwd Questions
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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.
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>Also, is there a better way to  sync these files from one server to
>another?
>Thanks,
>Lewis
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You could use dd to mirror the disks. Thats assuming you want to copy
everything.

-Frank