Creating Users

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Migrating from a FreeBSD Server to a FreeBSD v2 Server

Your first task after the shadow process is to create your users by running the addaccounts.pl script. To do this:

1.SHH to your new FreeBSD v2 Server and in the command line, type:

% cd /.migrate/bin

%./addaccounts.pl accountname

where “accountname” is your old FreeBSD Server account owner.

This script creates all the user accounts that were on the old server and their home directories at /home/username on the new server, with FTP and mail access and no shell access. Users with FTP and mail access will be added to the ftp and mail groups respectively, and each user will have a group created for them. The quota for each user remains as it was. If you want to grant shell access to a user, run the pw command. An example follows:

% pw usermod joe –s /bin/csh

2.To check the amount of disk space being used by a specific user on your server, type:

% quota username

where “username” is the name of your user

Adding Virtual Hosts and Other Apache Changes

After you have added the users, re-create the Virtual Hosts that you are hosting. In the past Virtual Hosts were generally stored in the vhosts directory for FreeBSD Server. For FreeBSD v2 Server we strongly suggest that you associate each Virtual Host with a user and put the Virtual Host site under that user’s home directory. For example, if you have a Virtual Host for test2.com and bob owns that site you would want to add the site to user bob’s home directory.

You cannot simply copy over the httpd.conf file or the VirtualHost blocks of the httpd.conf file. The format for each is completely different between a FreeBSD Server and a FreeBSD v2 Server. You will need to run vaddhost again for each Virtual Host.

An example follows of how to add a Virtual Host with the best settings.

1.Connect to your FreeBSD v2 Server using SSH and type vaddhost.

2.Proceed through the script, supplying the requested information. Press Enter to accept the [default values].

a.The user who is to be associated with the virtual host (subhosted domain). (Example: bob)

b.Type y or press Enter if the information is correct.

c.Type the hostname (example: grizzles.com) and press Enter.

d.Type www. and the same domain name you just typed, and press Enter. (example: www.grizzles.com)

e.Press Enter once more to move to the next step.

f.Type y or press Enter if the hostname information is correct.

g.Type the e-mail address of the Web site administrator and press Enter. The default value is webmaster@domain.name. If accepted, the e-mail address of the Web site administrator becomes webmaster@grizzles.com.

h.Press Enter, then type the document root for this user. (example: /home/joe/www/grizzles.biz)

Creating Users