On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Jimmy wrote: > I've tried that before last two year ago, > from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.1, my password support shadow, > so what I did is to copy /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to > my RH7.1 box, and it worked, all of them are authenticated > without any hassle.
There is just one problem with this procedure: you have to manually create the users' home directories, mailboxes, etc. A quick way to do this is to create a tar archive and move the tar archive to the new box, like tar cvf - /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /var/spool/mail /home \ | gzip -9 > users.tar.gz then just gunzip/untar "users.tar.gz" to the new machine! How about the group names and other stuff? PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
