Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:13:26 GMT From: Marty Cawthon <mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Move passwd info from 3.5-S to 4.1-S Message-ID: <20000803151326W.mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp>
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I have FreeBSD 3.5-Stable running.
Am preparing a new hard disk with FreeBSD 4.1-Stable to replace it.
To move the user account information (passwords, User IDs, Initial Group ID)
I plan to move these files:
/etc/passwd
/etc/master.passwd
/etc/pwd.db
/etc/spwd.db
I will boot the 3.5 system, mount the 4.1 hard drive root at /mnt/oroot
and "cp /etc/passwd /mnt/oroot/etc/passwd". With this I hope to avoid
any peculiar "file locking" of these files once the 4.1 system is running.
Two questions:
1) Are these (4) files sufficient or are other files needed?
(I realize that /etc/group is also important)
2) Can these files simply be moved from a 3.5 system to a 4.1 system,
or is there a change of file format?
I read the online handbook, and the section regarding users did not
describe this situation. Also perused the man pages.
Marty Cawthon
ChipChat
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