Did you move to a different physical box? That's what I'd like to do -- move several accounts to a different physical box (without having to recreate them). Sorry if my first post was unclear.
Dave >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/03 4:16 PM >>> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:41, District Webmaster wrote: > current OS: Redhat 7.3 > > Is it possible to move all user accounts from one Linux box to another > (preserving groups and passwords)? If so, can they be moved from one > distro to another (say, Red Hat to Debian)? > I recently kept my home directory and user account totally intact when switching from Mandrake 9 to Redhat 9 (everything on NIS and NFS). Gnome looked funny for a while, and my menus were totally messed up. I think I finally just deleted everything .gnome in my home dir (and lost my preferences) and that fixed the problems. Other than that it worked pretty well, so give it a try. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
