Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-03 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Daniel Bye schrieb: Or copy /etc/passwd from the old machine to the new one, and run pwd_mkdb, which is essentially what vipw does anyway. This would not work, the file that contains the passwords and that should be copied is /etc/master.passwd. pwd_mkdb generates the /etc/passwd from this f

Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:45:12AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > What is the best way of migrating users from one machine (FreeBSD > > 6.3) to a new machine (FreeBSD 7.2)? > > > I need to migrate their user account settings (shell, password, > > expiry etc) and also their data that the

Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine

2009-10-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > What is the best way of migrating users from one machine (FreeBSD > 6.3) to a new machine (FreeBSD 7.2)? > I need to migrate their user account settings (shell, password, > expiry etc) and also their data that they have in their directories. Basically: - you need to vipw on both machine a

Re: Migrating users and passwords from one system to another

2004-02-13 Thread matthew
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm kinda surprised that this isn't an FAQ, but... > > How do I move users and passwords from a current system to a new one? > Is it sufficient to move /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd, or are > there other things? > I always just co

Re: migrating users

2003-11-28 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Rob Evers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:50 AM Subject: migrating users > Hi all, > > I'm going to move move my sendmail server to a new machine. > The new machine will use postfix and virtual users, now what

RE: migrating users

2003-11-28 Thread Jason Taylor
> >Why would you want to have the cleartext passwords for all users to be > >able to migrate? What you could do is start 'vipw' as root on the > >original server, save that file to disk under a different name, start > >'vipw' on the new server, and read in the saved file, and save it again. > > >

Re: migrating users

2003-11-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Rob Evers: > I'm going to move move my sendmail server to a new machine. The new > machine will use postfix and virtual users, now what I cant't figure > out is how to migrate the users (and keep the old passwords). Does > anyone know of a procedure to extract plain text passwords f

Re: migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Evers
Sander Smeenk wrote: Quoting Vince Hoffman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm going to move move my sendmail server to a new machine. figure out is how to migrate the users (and keep the old passwords). Does anyone know of a procedure to extract plain text passwords for all users ? Or maybe just pointer

Re: migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Vince Hoffman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm going to move move my sendmail server to a new machine. > > figure out is how to migrate the users (and keep the old passwords). > > Does anyone know of a procedure to extract plain text passwords for > > all users ? Or maybe just pointers where t

RE: migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
Either try john the ripper or similar password crackers. (ports or www.openwall.net) > -Original Message- > From: Rob Evers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 November 2003 13:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: migrating users > > > Hi all, > > I'm going to move move my sendmail