Hi Jamie --
Thanks for the speedy reply. I had already tar'd and moved passwd and
/home to the new machine. The file ownerships made the transition as
soon as I installed the password file. The are approx 350 user
directories, all high security with http pages and links. It is a way
major task.
You are the best reply at present. If I don't get a better solution by
Thurs., you'll be the winner and I'll pay the reward, check or Money
Order.
Thanks again,
Woody
"Linux Rocks!" wrote:
>
> Woody,
> Howdy... so you can probably do what you want, however it will
> require a bunch of work any way you do it... you can copy the home dir
> over to the new machine, but you will need to add all the users still. you
> can copy over your password file(s), which may just do it, but i belive
> you will need to do other stuff before the user accounts will work (that
> is if it will work...). Those 2 things (the users home dirs, and the
> password file(s) are a minimum on any multi-user system. you will also
> want to make sure the ownership of the home dirs are set to each user (if
> you copy files as root, they may endup being owned as root, instead of the
> user. so... how you copy the users home dirs does matter, id use tar (do a
> man tar for options). I dont know how many users you have, but it would be
> best to just add users to the new system rather than hack the new systme
> with the old one...
>
> Jamie
