Re: accounts

["Ophidian" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

sync isnt an issue, im wanting to migrate from one box to the other



> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Casey Boone wrote:
>
> > is there any way of exporting user accounts from one linux box to
another?
> >
> > here is the scenerio
> >
> > 2 linux servers
> >
> > 1 has a ton of user accounts on it, the other is relatively scarce
account
> > wise
>
> Right up front, several things you'll want to look at:
>
> NIS, NIS+, LDAP for starters.
>
> > i want to transfer accounts over from one machine to the other
>
> What about homedirs?

non issue, nothing in the home dirs :)










>
> > both machines are running redhat 7.1, accounts were added via webmin,
which
> > i believe uses adduser
>
> Not that big of a deal
>
> Is the system with all of the accounts using shadow passwords?   If not
> you can copy the user accounts over (cut and paste if you truly want to be
> cheap about it) however you still have to sync the accounts, hence NIS,
> NIS+ (which IIRC is still spotty supportwise under linux) or some LDAP
> solution (IANAL, YMMV).

all shadowed


>
> The big question is what to do about the users homedirs.  If they need
> access to those then you'll need nfs... thankfully 2.4 support is better
> with nfs.  You'll want to use autofs for mounting, which does tie in
> nicely with NIS.
>
> Sean...
>

i appreciate the information :)

casey



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