Well, the box stayed the same, the distro on the box changed. My home directory and user account were never stored on the box, they were stored on the NIS and NFS servers. If all you are worried about is compatability issues what box makes no difference. If you are just wondering how to do it, you just need to copy the files mentioned in the other posts from the one machine to the other, or manually merge them from the one box into the existing files on the new box. I don't know about that shadow stuff, but the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are in a standard format that won't be any different between distributions.
Bryan On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:26, District Webmaster wrote: > 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 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
