That worked, easier than I thought. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/15/13 05:10, John Tate wrote: >> I want to migrate users from one machine to another, I was hoping >> someone had a script. I basically want to copy every user with a UID >>>= 1000 and their password to the new system. I have copied their home >> directories with rsync, so it would be good if it could also chmod the >> permissions back. >> > > not sure why you need a script... > The exact details depends on what is different between the systems > currently and desired to be different ultimately. > > Start with the old /etc/master.passwd file, fix things that are missing, > remove things you don't want, copy it over and and run pwd_mkdb. If the > starting and ending machines are supposed to be "identical", no fixing > should be needed. > > Nick. >
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