Re: accounts

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Casey Boone wrote:
> can i copy out the lines from each of those files pertaining to the users i
> want to migrate over?

Yes.

> now this should work on migrating accounts from one machine to another as
> long as both distros use shadow passwords?

If it is Linux on both sides with the appropriate support for shadow
passwords, MD5 passwords, etc., everything should work fine.

You'll need to copy the appropriate entries from /etc/passwd,
/etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow.  Just make sure that none
of the user or group names or ids conflict.

Steve
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