Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:07:39 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct? Message-ID: <4B98A4CB.6090507@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100311054110.GA11675@dan.emsphone.com> References: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com> <20100311054110.GA11675@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 11/03/2010 05:41:10, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
And try running 'mergemaster -p' which should let you merge in any new
system accounts (ignore all the other bits it looks at).
Cheers,
Matthew
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