migrating users from one machine to another

drobbins_at_drobins.net
Date: 07/30/04

  • Next message: Juhan Leemet: "Re: prevent out of memory" 
    Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:00:36 -0400

    Hello All,

    I've got a redhat 8.0 machine I've had hanging out on the web from my house
    for several years. It does web/ftp/email etc. A few friends have email
    accounts on it. I want to upgrade to a newer machine. I've got the new box
    setup, most apps moved over etc. What is the best way to move my user
    accounts over? I can copy their home dirs easy enough. Authentication is
    the trick. Both boxes use rehat default, pam I think, with shadow
    passwords? I think I need to copy over /etc/passwd and etc/shadow. Is it
    that easy or will I screw things up by overwriting the existing files?
    Anybody know of a readme on this, surely it's not that uncommon a thing to
    do.

    Thanks

    Dave

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