Thanks guys, it worked!
-Modulok-

On 3/11/10, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 11/03/2010 05:41:10, Dan Nelson wrote:
>> In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said:
>>> I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 server to a newer 8.0
>>> server (different box).  This is what I did:
>>>
>>> copied the  '/etc/master.passwd' from old server to '/etc/master.passwd'
>>> on new server then ran:
>>>
>>> pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd && pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
>>>
>>> It seems to work, but is this correct? I'd hate to miss somethign before
>>> it goes online.
>>
>> Yep, that should work.  Don't forget to update /etc/groups too.
>>
>
> And try running 'mergemaster -p' which should let you merge in any new
> system accounts (ignore all the other bits it looks at).
>
>       Cheers,
>
>       Matthew
>
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