Re: accounts

[Tighe Schlottog <emry@icephyre.net>]

> is there any way of exporting user accounts from one linux box to another?

yup.  tar and/or scp.  :)

> i want to transfer accounts over from one machine to the other
> the accounts i want to copy all have a user id of 1500 and above

#!/usr/bin/perl

open(R,"</etc/passwd");
while() {
        @temp = split /:/;
        if ($temp[2] >= 1500) printf "/home/$temp[0]";
}
close(R);

you can try and use a for loop from the command line, but that is goin to
cause you problems if you have any spaces in the gecos field.  use
something like that which i spewed up there and pipe it into tar or scp.

someone else mentioned using LDAP, this is a great idea if you are banging
around with large amounts of user accounts.  for christsake though, don't
even think abot NIS(+).  unless you like long hours of trying ti figure
out why everything stopped working when you know you changed nothing, not
realizing that a fly in south america farted and that caused your table
space to need to be reloaded.

tighe

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