Re: [CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Warren Young
Ray Leventhal wrote: Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Merge your RH8 copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow into the CentOS ones, preferring the new ver

RE: [CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Leventhal wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions > when moving > from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just > simpler to > recreate the users manually? > > Total users on this system is < 20. Check out the 'newusers' command.

[CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Total users on this system is < 20. Thanks in advance, -Ray ___ Cen