Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-03 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Daniel Bye schrieb: Or copy /etc/passwd from the old machine to the new one, and run pwd_mkdb, which is essentially what vipw does anyway. This would not work, the file that contains the passwords and that should be copied is /etc/master.passwd. pwd_mkdb generates the /etc/passwd from this

Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:45:12AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, 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

migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-01 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
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

Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, 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. Basically: - you need to vipw on both machine and