Migrating user accounts from linux to freebsd

[Lowell Gilbert]

Brian Sheehan <brian.sheehan at ul.ie> writes:

> 8) On both the linux box and the freebsd one, each user has its own
> group (of the same name of the user). For any users migrated from the
> linux machine to the bsd one, I also copied the corresponding entries
> from linux:/etc/group to freebsd:/etc/group. I hadn't seen anyone
> suggest doing this, but I can't see why it would be problem, and it
> seems to work fine.

adduser(8) does exactly this (by default).