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Le 2003-08-12, doug@allensystemconsultants.com écrivait :

> there.  But then I copied the master.passwd file from the previous
> server over the new master.passwd file and most of the passwords were
> scrambled.  Is it impossible to use the old master.passwd file when
> picking up the pieces of the old server on the new server?  If it
> isn't impossible, under what conditions can one reuse the file
> contents?  

What do you mean by 'scrambled'? Did you run 'pwd_mkdb -p
/etc/master.passwd' after copying the file?

Thomas.

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