From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 05:41:13 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 2EDCE106566C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:41:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AB08FC0A for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o2B5fBXp009238 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2B5fBjo005351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o2B5fBYS005350; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:10 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Modulok Message-ID: <20100311054110.GA11675@dan.emsphone.com> References: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:11 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 05:41:13 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said: > 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. Yep, that should work. Don't forget to update /etc/groups too. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com