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12-28-2004, 02:04 AM
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How to move users FC3
I want to get FC3 running and configured well on a new machine before replacing my current FC2 system. How do I move the users/passwords/home to the new box?
Thanks in advance
Mstone
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12-28-2004, 05:59 AM
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I think if you upgrade your existing FC2 to FC3, instead of fresh installing FC3 you won't have to worry about that.
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01-03-2005, 01:33 PM
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Thanks for your reply. After upgrading from RH9 to FC2 and dealing with all the stuff that got broken in the process, honestly, I'm a little gun shy of upgrading from FC2 -> FC3. I have lots of mail users that I don't want to disrupt. Besides, I need better hardware to support the services that are required in that environment so the bottom line is I need to move all the users to a new box. I've just never done that before. Moving the users is not the problem, I could do that one at a time, it is moving the passwords that I don't know how to do.
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01-03-2005, 04:15 PM
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Well, i don't know if there is an automated procedure to do that.
You probably already know that: users/passwords are stored in /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow and /etc/group.
I haven't upgrated my FC2 to FC3, but as far as I know it's easy (much easier that upgrating RH9 to FC2) since FC3 is the successor of FC2.
Last edited by perfect_circle; 01-04-2005 at 05:46 AM.
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