Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:58:08 -0500 (EST) From: matthew <matthew@netway.com> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating users and passwords from one system to another Message-ID: <20040213225521.M84454@admin1.mdc.net> In-Reply-To: <p06020431bc53460ca26d@[63.202.92.153]> References: <p06020431bc53460ca26d@[63.202.92.153]>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. I'm kinda surprised that this isn't an FAQ, but...
>
> How do I move users and passwords from a current system to a new one?
> Is it sufficient to move /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd, or are
> there other things?
>
I always just copy over the files when no other process is using them.
/etc/master.passwd /etc/passwd /etc/group
I then run
/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
on the new machine to generate the passwd databases.
Try to look for a flag one can use with rsync to keep modification time,
access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID as
allowed by permissions...
copied from man cp -p flag comment.
m
> I'm moving from an oldish 4.8 system to a brand new 4.9 system, and
> want to have all the users set up on the new machine before I start
> rsyncing everything over so that the users and groups come out right.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
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