On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:11:44 -0500 synrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm setting up a new server for my mail-web-file server setup.
> While I'm not worried about recreating configuration files for most
> servers, I don't know what to do with the users home directories and
> password files. Will it work if I simply add the contents of the old
> password file to password file on the new machine ?? ( only user names
> of course ). Do I need to worry about shadow passwords in this case ??
> any advice will be appreciated.
I had the same problem when upgrading. In addition, a previous distro
competed with uids/gids in the 500 range; so I changed all my users to
start at 555. Now, when upgrading, I create ONLY an "installer" userid,
then copy over all the /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} stuff in the 555+ range
(users only) and voila!
HTH,
Pierre
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