On Tuesday 27 Jul 2010 03:58:06 M.Lewis wrote:
> I'm migrating an old RedHat server to a new Debian server. In migrating
> the data there's a problem in that on the RH server the UID starts at
> 500, on the Debian server the UID starts at 1000. Resulting in something
> like this:
>
> Old User New
> UID Name UID
>
> 500 Moe 1000
> 501 Larry 1001
> 502 Curley 1002
> 503 Shemp 1003
>
> I've tossed this around in my head and haven't really arrived at a good
> method to correct the UID's on the new server. I presume there will be a
> similar problem with GID's as well, although I've not yet confirmed that.
>
My suggestion is to simply copy the appropriate lines from the /etc/passwd to
the new /etc/passwd.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> I'm hopeful that someone will give me an idea that will give me a
> kick-start so to speak.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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