Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:26:04 +0200 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: John <lists@reiteration.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: master.passwd restoring from 4.10 to 5.3 Message-ID: <41BAAF1C.8090809@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <20041211015322.GA1626@reiteration.net> References: <20041211015322.GA1626@reiteration.net>
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John wrote: > Is it possible to restore/merge master.passwd across the revision boundary? I just moved a bunch of user accounts from 4.9 system to 5.3 system. All it took was pasting the relevant lines of old master.passwd into new master.passwd using vipw. I didn't touch any system user accounts, of course. > Do I have to do the same with /etc/groups? /etc/group is just a text file, so there are no problems. Except, again, don't replace the system groups of your 5.3 system with the ones from 4.10.
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