From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 02:09:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A2F1065676 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9BC8FC08 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj1 with SMTP id 1so5108646pwj.13 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=BFQ6R91NEp2QwSaS+MOJ8Qs9OMr6qYKEUBCAhfT7fDo=; b=F0qmCQdn+6QQObupBPpEMXvibm1r6FTl9pXjWH224rox4sfi6AcdUVfMBxt0mvps11 u9nSaiCEZsM7rJHym+jDQk79W+/s1Z2AzLSX+b6+5kKLCC1zem7+oCyLPvMzeT/VTQJF 76Gnq3jDj/fFMo0AXuYF1ADx2+em9bVHRe4Qo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=NhP5OgSFEs1NUqs1iBQV4sjav9XIN7731ikvISMpFMPng8iWLnZQZV/3rOGEvMaefx 5m8aKgPNJGsAKSil/zvLUdWsxv5vcjPtfHt+SSszsJ3TvoL+yJJ0Sdr6ES0NLbNYzU/u YYqPcDbTV05LJhLl2HAinRjO7NBL7S2NRvtx0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.65.22 with SMTP id n22mr1020560wfa.113.1268273392439; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:09:52 -0700 Message-ID: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com> From: Modulok To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:54 -0000 I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 server to a newer 8.0 server (different box). This is what I did: copied the '/etc/master.passwd' from old server to '/etc/master.passwd' on new server then ran: pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd && pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd It seems to work, but is this correct? I'd hate to miss somethign before it goes online. Thanks guys! -Modulok-