Re: Data migration

2010-07-27 Thread rkb
M.Lewis wrote: > > On 07/27/2010 09:15 AM, Ron Bergin wrote: [snip] >> >> If you don't want to use the original UID's, then the >> first thing that >> I can think of is to: >> >> 1) use useradd to create the new account >> >> 2) scp or rsync the original home directory to the new >> server >> >>

Re: Data migration

2010-07-27 Thread M.Lewis
On 07/27/2010 09:15 AM, Ron Bergin wrote: On Jul 26, 5:58 pm, ca...@cajuninc.com ("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. Res

RE: Data migration

2010-07-27 Thread Bob McConnell
From: M.Lewis > On 07/27/2010 01:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: >> 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 s

Re: Data migration

2010-07-27 Thread Ron Bergin
On Jul 26, 5:58 pm, ca...@cajuninc.com ("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

Re: Data migration

2010-07-27 Thread M.Lewis
On 07/27/2010 01:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: 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

AW: Data migration

2010-07-26 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Shlomi Fish wrote: > My suggestion is to simply copy the appropriate lines from the > /etc/passwd to > the new /etc/passwd. ... and of course not to forget about /etc/shadow because otherwise you won't be able to login. HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For

Re: Data migration

2010-07-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
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

Data migration

2010-07-26 Thread M.Lewis
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 UserNew UID NameUID 500 Moe 1000 501