Moving users

Richard Beyer richard at enterprise.another.com.au
Mon Jun 16 00:39:21 PDT 2003


Excellent!  Thanks Ruben.

Cheers,
Richard


On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:40:02PM +1000, Richard Beyer typed:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to move users from one machine to another and keep their passwords
> > intact.
> >
> > I've added a test user to "Server-Source" and a test user to
> > "Server-Destination" and copied the password hash from
> > /etc/master.password on "Server-Source" and pasted it into master.password
> > on "Server-Destination", but the login fails.
>
> Have you rebuild the password database after modifying master.passwd ?
>
> pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
>


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