From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 18 12:10:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10931 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birdland.rhein-neckar.de (root@birdland.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.88.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10922 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by birdland.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA26783; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:09:40 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:09:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Martin Jangowski To: Eddie Fry cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup Server In-Reply-To: <199708181728.KAA17043@Wicked.eaznet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Eddie Fry wrote: > I'm in the process of creating a backup server. The only problem I seem > to be having is moving the existing password files (on a 2.1.5 machine) to > the backup server (2.2.1). Is there an easy way to do this? I had the same problem a few weeks ago. I made a "vipw" on the old machine, saved it to a file, ftp'ed this file to the new (freshly installed) machine, used "vipw" to get rid of the old (new) passwd and read the ftp'ed passwd-file. After ":wq" I had the old passwd file on the new machine. Maybe not the most elegant way, but worked. YMMV, Martin | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: maja@birdland.rhein-neckar.de | | Voice: +49 621/53 95 06 Fax: +49 621/53 95 07 | | Snail Mail: Koenigsbacher Str. 16 D-67067 Ludwigshafen Germany | | RNInet e.V. Rhein-Neckar Internet |