copy users to second PC

deweirdt · 02-06-2004, 05:02 AM

Hello,

I've installed a second PC with RH9 installed. Now I do not want to make all my users one-by-one again. Is there no replication tool that will do that for me.

homey · 02-06-2004, 06:41 AM

Copy these over....
/home/*
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group

Also any samba stuff which may be important.

deweirdt · 02-06-2004, 07:09 AM

Is there a way that I can do this automatic. So if I add a user on a server that I then also change it automatc in the otherone.

Or do I need to make a script for that.

homey · 02-06-2004, 07:27 AM

I don't know of anything automatic right off hand.

future leet · 02-06-2004, 07:36 AM

Could you symlink the necessary files to a network resource, so that the two computers use the same stuff. I don't know if this is what you really want to do though, sounds about right.

You could write a script that, on startup, checks if the other computer has a newer version of a file, and if so replaces it's own file with that one.