On Thu July 21 2005 10:56 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I would like to know what would be the best or most proper method for > migrating a user database from flat files /etc/passwd etc on a Redhat > System to a newly set up'ed gentoo box. > > Do I just copy and paste the relevent details into the Gentoo Box, > (which most likely will work after I take into account the uid starts > difference (1000 on gentoo and 500 on redhat).
I've been doing the same thing. I've migrated two FC3 machines to Gentoo and have four to go. I copied the "regular" users from the FC3 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and pasted them into Gentoo. I did not copy any system users over. I also set UID_MIN to 500 in /etc/login.defs. Just make sure you don't already have any users on Gentoo over 500. I haven't had any problems yet, but maybe someone else can tell if I've overlooked anything. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
