Re: accounts

[John Bell <john.bell@borg-hive.net>]

If you're just retiring one box and replacing it with another and you're
not using nis, or kerberos, etc you could do the following.

Copy /home from machine a to machine b.
Copy /etc/passwd from a to b
Copy /etc/group from a to b
Copy /etc/shadow from a to b (if you're using shadow passwords)

This works fine, I've done this many times in the past for standard *nix
systems.

John

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:32, 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
> 
> i want to transfer accounts over from one machine to the other
> 
> both machines are running redhat 7.1, accounts were added via webmin, which
> i believe uses adduser
> 
> the accounts i want to copy all have a user id of 1500 and above
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated
> 
> casey
> 
> 
> 
> 
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