On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 10:46, Mike Burger wrote: > Copy the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files to tne new system. > > tar up /home and /var/spool/mail on the old system and untar them on the > new system...voila! >
I have hesitated to do that from previous upgrades (6.x to 7.x) since many of the services run under their own users and they did not exist in the older system /etc/passwd. If that is not a issue then you should be good to go. Where does the current and new mail systems store user mail? if it is kept in ~/mbox then you will need a home dir. if it is in /var/spool you should be able to copy the files across once the new users are in the system ( so the ownerships will be correct depending on what is used to copy them) I would probably tar up the old , scp the tar file to the new system and then untar it. I have used a webmin tool as part of user/group management that will create users from a batch file that is very similar to /etc/shadow. passwords are passed encrypted and as a result the users never knew I had changed the machine. Definitely worth looking into for 3000 users. seems like the last time I used it it did not do the groups though. Are these regular redhat users with their own primary groups. HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
