Well, yeah, I just seem to have a tendency to do dumb stuff -- the older I get the dumber I seem to get.

The other machines are going to get a little treatment; peel off existing login accounts greater than 100, store that, bolt them on to the tail of the new passwd, group and shadow files. Ought to work, shouldn't be a really big deal as long as I diff the new and old files so I catch any add-on daemon type stuff (pretty sure there are one or two).

Been an instructive couple of days.