Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 24/03/2011 03:45, Todd Cary wrote: I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave and install Centos 5.5 on a new HD (master). Then comes the challenge of of moving all of my /home/user data to the new master. I have some preliminary questions: Is this a good strategy for installing

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Todd Cary
Kevin - When the time comes, I may need help in creating the command that excludes the entries in owner, group, password and shadow tables for system entries. Todd On 3/24/2011 5:17 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: On 24/03/2011 03:45, Todd Cary wrote: I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Kevin - When the time comes, I may need help in creating the command that excludes the entries in owner, group, password and shadow tables for system entries. Todd For starters, copy over the 5.4 files verbatim, and edit the home directory entries so

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/23/2011 10:45 PM, Todd Cary wrote: I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave and install Centos 5.5 on a new HD (master). Then comes the challenge of of moving all of my /home/user data to the new master. I have some preliminary questions: Is this a good strategy for installing

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Todd Cary
On 3/24/2011 8:04 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/23/2011 10:45 PM, Todd Cary wrote: I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave and install Centos 5.5 on a new HD (master). Then comes the challenge of of moving all of my /home/user data to the new master. I have some preliminary questions:

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 3/24/11, Kevin Thorpe ke...@pibenchmark.com wrote: splice the users part of /etc/passwd /etc/shadow and /etc/group on to the system and /etc/*shadow* files perhaps ? dunno for c4. worked across two c5 boxens for me. Regards, Rajagopal

[CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-23 Thread Todd Cary
I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave and install Centos 5.5 on a new HD (master). Then comes the challenge of of moving all of my /home/user data to the new master. I have some preliminary questions: Is this a good strategy for installing Centos 5.5: keep the Centos 4 on a slave