Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct?

[Matthew Seaman]

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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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