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Old 04-05-2004, 10:10 PM   #1
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moving server and move users


I'm upgrading servers, and need to move users from one server to another (from RH 9 to RH ES).

Can I cut and paste entries from /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and /etc/groups or is this not the way to do it, or am I forgetting any files?

Thanks
Manuel
 
Old 04-08-2004, 04:31 AM   #2
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First of all I'm wishing you good luck. I am about to do the same thing tommorow!

I also have take the gshadow file (not sure if I need it). If you were running anything like Samba, be sure that you will take all the *.conf files, and passwd files associated to that. I have done this some times before, and everything went well.

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