* Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060109 19:02]: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:47:54PM -0500, Jim Razmus wrote: > >* Jason Balan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060109 13:26]: > >>Is there a way to migrate the users from a 3.6 box to a 3.8 box i.e. > >>passwd > >>files user directories and such. > > > >1. Use tar to copy /home > >2. grab /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd > >3. use pwd_mkdb on the target machine with the master.passwd file you > >brought with you. > > And what does this do to the new system users added between 3.6 and 3.8? > > -- > Christopher Vance >
Correct, I just did a migration myself. I neglected to mentioned step 4 as follows written like US government documentation: 4. before doing step 3, be sure to merge new accounts and groups into their respective files. /me smacks myself
