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Old 10-30-2004, 04:52 AM   #1
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porting to a new machine


I have a Red Hat Linux 7.2 system running as an email server. I want to port the existing system with user ids and passwords into another system. Can someone tell me how to do this? I am particularly interested to know how to keep the passwords intact.
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Old 10-30-2004, 06:50 AM   #2
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Copy the lines in /etc/shadow file to the new system to get the passwords. Other information about the users is in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
 
  


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