From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 6:45:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12ADB37B403 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 06:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA03753; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:52:57 +0200 Message-ID: <3B52F066.1F536A4E@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:47:18 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dave Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating users to new version and hard disk References: <200107141803.SAA28842@asylum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dave schrieb: > > Hi, > > I've reinstalled and rebuilt my server migrating from freebsd 3.1-->4.3. > I have about 40 users and their home directories that I need to > move onto the new hardrive. Does anyone have a simple recipe > to do this without having to create all the old accounts on the > new installation? - Synchronize the new /etc/group file to the old one - Copy the old accounts lines into the new box _using_vipw_. - tar the users home directories over. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message