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Subject: Re: moving users?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:00:52 -0700
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Yes, quite simple, i just did this a few days ago.

Copy these files from your old machine:
/etc/passwd
/etc/master.passwd
/etc/group

and put them on your new system (i did this in single-user mode), then run
pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob O'Donnell" <robert@aphnet.co.uk>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:30 AM
Subject: moving users?


>
> Hi all.. a simple question, but I hope it's an easy answer..
>
> I've got a 3.4-release box that's used simply as an email server. I'd like
> to move the several dozen user accounts off it onto a new(ish) 4.5-release
> based box.
>
> Is there a simple way to extract the user account details off one machine
> and create them on the other?  I imagine that I can just copy the
mailboxes
> over as normal files once the users are replicated over..
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rob.
>
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