Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:15:36 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Move users from one system to another. Message-ID: <19980928111536.C22025@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <053d01bde730$b6506350$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>; from Alain G. Fabry on Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 03:28:23PM -0500 References: <053d01bde730$b6506350$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>
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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 at 15:28 SAT, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > I have just installed a new machine running FreeBSD 2.2.7. Have an old > machine (FreeBSD 2.2.7) with 5 users and I want to transfer these users to > the new machine. > How can I go about this to make this move transparent to them? > Includes moving mailboxes, users, password, files, etc. Manually, I'm afraid. - Check that /etc/group on the new box contains the same entries as on the old one. Copy it from the old to the new if necessary. - Run vipw on the old box, and copy all the lines pertaining to the 5 users to a separate file. On the new box, run vipw and yank in these lines. That should create the users with the same UIDs and other parameters. - tar up the users' home directories and transfer them across. - Remember the mailboxes! - You might want to do a find through the entire filesystem for files belonging to these users. You can "feed" the result of this find to tar as well. - ... and I probably forgot some things as well. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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