Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:00:21 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson <bunicula@rcn.com> To: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> Cc: Justin Boss <jboss@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backing up user names and groops Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003081655050.18258-100000@asmodeus.diabolis.net> In-Reply-To: <00031008531605.00345@freebsd.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Danny wrote:
> But instead of copying it over with "cp" dont you meant to use the "Cat"
> command like so:-
>
> cat old.master.passwd >> /etc/master.passwd
>
why? cp has worked fine for me...
mv /etc/master.passwd /etc/master.passwd.bak
cp othermaster.passwd master.passwd
i am going on the assumption that this is a new system, and users are
being migrated to it... so preserving the existing users wouldn't be an
issue... if you wanted to preserve the existing users, you'd cat >> the
file, then have to use vipw to clean up duplicate entries (or just edit
the master.passwd from the other machine before appending it.
brian
Looking forward to your feedback.
>
> dannyh
>
> dannyh@idx.com.au
>
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Brian Anderson wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Justin Boss wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering if there is a way to backup all user and group. I'm bring up
> > > a new server and I tared the user directories but UID# is different when I
> > > add the user back. So then I have to change the owner. Is there files that I
> > > can just bring over form the old server?
> >
> >
> >
> > user data is in /etc/master.passwd
> > group data /etc/group
> >
> > those files can be copied from one system to another, and will get your
> > user accounts moved over. when you copy master.passwd, make sure to
> > rebuild your user database (man pwd_mkdb)
> >
> >
> > brian
> >
> >
> >
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