Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-11-08 Thread mattibj...@bredband.net
Hello Matthew, On 10/29/2010 04:51 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/10/2010 12:46, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd

Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-11-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/11/2010 22:44, mattibj...@bredband.net wrote: Its never bad to be careful but shouldn't it be enough to change init mode? This isn't SysV. BSD init doesn't really do modes. However, yes, taking the system down to single user and then back up to multiuser is a possibility.

Copy all users between systems

2010-10-29 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group then run pwd_mkdb and finally restart the system. (Obviously, I also

Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-10-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/10/2010 12:46, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group then run pwd_mkdb and