From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 27 6:49:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gate.saargate.de (gate.saargate.de [212.88.128.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791FA14CF6 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 06:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Message-id: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:47:04 +0200 Subject: Re: PASSWD FILE To: ingrid@cityscope.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: domi@saargate.de (domi) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ingrid@cityscope.net schreibt: >I'm moving a large amount of users from one server to a new server. >Can I go into the /etc/passwd & /etc/master.passwd files in notepad, >change the UID/GIDs and then add to new server with no problems? >Currently the passwd files are on FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE system and will >be moving to 3.3.1 system. Let me know, thanks guys. You also have to pay attention to the /etc/group for the GIDs. And you should avoid giving two users the same UID. Regards, Dominik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message