From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 08:08:02 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 EB5591065677 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E39E8FC39 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2B87dNX011414 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:07:39 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B98A4CB.6090507@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:07:39 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <64c038661003101809s7467432buce6a548b3b0d5cf2@mail.gmail.com> <20100311054110.GA11675@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20100311054110.GA11675@dan.emsphone.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Modulok 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 08:08:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuYpMsACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxacgCfTxB2WO7JXMu4XQs/M9kcYvWu QwIAn0DX0eFW8IrP5N5vOlZR51Eg68FF =2qaS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----