From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 19:20:11 2009 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 0FA6F1065670 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:20:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aaflatooni@yahoo.com) Received: from web56206.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56206.mail.re3.yahoo.com [216.252.110.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95B7A8FC20 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 56758 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Oct 2009 19:20:09 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1254424806; bh=JiQh9tWUyyVfcP+OYVYidh+tI0skf0B1nfzuVTXVOAU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=derQtuLoustwk3nUm8Ziy/RElLglDKdcLpOKmr/F8keH5QzPtg6ZaSwRUse3NCT2AXhD3bZbWK/IkI4hQhSX/UVkhZ51ypIFj9LjJO8s1/AynnRfkABSO3zkKLWtpIhc4ucnE9810XzS1m3xaLezHHMs89X/4yN7JbCtGOoi/Gk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=IvoR/cvbyADodTRmSSQZx+fZXsTcNb0wOUGtKB4rWtjFD0iCZERqpBVSArq5lbuxOR0UkNskRtzGcKXjzysp6e3BeXbSl2ArtjNpEmz8ReFFt6a/Wmtz13XkuVySU10OEeW7C+wgHzWe0/f2+CeoWdCnlt7hi/aTl0P/5FRVztk=; Message-ID: <80173.56174.qm@web56206.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: ZWUfzLEVM1nzE4M_i8G1UgZlldTfNM.ippGiWxRPFAp8m1f8v3a45AQ9Mr8q7OcMeh5jA3R5zFP12xdanCKRF9fng9eSI.bEZ_mj2fmPVV0A2YuefwDXzaUOdWrdEOX6haWWTeQRAzX1ZT041WPTbIJvEcTyAqzTFs_zRhjBSORfUeRuqg4dTKpf9tj8VssHKyv8VJV78cb3.4RVfTnXCXIH_c7kAlX8TX7yeWgEiUu6OUUjWiGlGY17wLe5dkkWioLQLMMAeZ.F7LdVK1SJkqxztGcPbTt6HNQrU7WK5G._dHDhfhXhY077guwsfViZv8iakX2cVaPz08dme1KodPW1cS4cwuCCIQb13OG.b1Nt4_mq60m7L.Pm Received: from [69.172.83.42] by web56206.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:20:06 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/157.18 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:20:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Aflatoon Aflatooni To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: migrating users from one machine to another machine 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, 01 Oct 2009 19:20:11 -0000 What is the best way of migrating users from one machine (FreeBSD 6.3) to a new machine (FreeBSD 7.2)? I need to migrate their user account settings (shell, password, expiry etc) and also their data that they have in their directories. Many thanks