On 07/27/2010 09:15 AM, Ron Bergin wrote:
On Jul 26, 5:58 pm, ca...@cajuninc.com ("M.Lewis") wrote:
I'm migrating an old RedHat server to a new Debian server. In migrating
the data there's a problem in that on the RH server the UID starts at
500, on the Debian server the UID starts at 1000. Resulting in something
like this:
Old User New
UID Name UID
500 Moe 1000
501 Larry 1001
502 Curley 1002
503 Shemp 1003
I've tossed this around in my head and haven't really arrived at a good
method to correct the UID's on the new server. I presume there will be a
similar problem with GID's as well, although I've not yet confirmed that.
I'm hopeful that someone will give me an idea that will give me a
kick-start so to speak.
Thanks,
Mike
If you don't want to use the original UID's, then the first thing that
I can think of is to:
1) use useradd to create the new account
2) scp or rsync the original home directory to the new server
3) chown the user's files to reset the user/group id's
That's what I was thinking too Ron, but I was hopeful for a more
automated method of doing them all rather than one user at a time.
There's not so many users that is just out of the question, but I'd like
to avoid it if I can do it simply.
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