From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 11:19:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (adsl-63-195-43-53.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.43.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD34C14F1C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 20909 invoked from network); 14 Dec 1999 19:19:12 -0000 Received: from toy.chip-web.com (HELO bigfoot.com) (@172.16.1.30) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 1999 19:19:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3856982F.DF3C9CF2@bigfoot.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:19:11 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is pwd.db file? References: <87wvqhe9pz.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Should I keep my old pwd.db when upgrading system or copy the new one > over the old one? pwd.db and spwd.db are created by pwd_mkdb from your master.passwd. Just run vipw on the new system, copy lines from old master.passwd to the new system's master.passwd, and vipw will take care of running pwd_mkdb for you. You may have issues regarding MD5 vs. DES passwords. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message