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How to migrate NFS account to local?

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benten1012

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Hi folks, can anyone tell me the best way to move an NFS home account to a local user account of a macbook pro? I'm hoping for a seamless transition retaining all of the shortname, password, permissions, etc.

Can I copy the NFS users with: $ sudo cp -pr /Volumes/nfsusers/userexample /Users/

And then create a local account on the macbook with the same username/pw?

Thanks!
 
assuming that the NFS mount has "root" permission on the share

your command should work or I would usually run the following to copy the directory tree

$ sudo su -
# (cd /Volumes/nfsusers; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /Users; tar xpf - )

i'll create the users locally beforehand ... but should not matter.

have fun
 
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