i used to do this manually with a text editor. just making sure i only copy the actual user accounts, excluding duplicates. take note of the userids, groupids. you also might have to update the passwd, shadow, and group files.
if you edit loginnames then you have to rename home directories. if you edit UIDs or GIDs then you also have to chown their files hope it helps On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Nelson Serafica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have 5 mail server that will be planning to join as 1. Let's say A,B,C,D > and E. The mail server that will act as 1 is A. > > My first concern is how do I transfer the user account from B,C,D and E > going to A while retaining their password in their previous mail server? > Emails is no concern since I can rsync the home directory. > > I'm thinking of combining shadow file but is it advisable? Any > software/commands that can do this? Will different OS such as Rh9, FC2 and > Centos4 will be an issue even they are all rpm-like OS? > > ________________________________ > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://ph.mail.yahoo.com > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. Winelfred G. Pasamba Adventist University of the Philippines Online Information Systems _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
