Paul, Now is the time to make sure that you're assigning the same person the same UID and GID values across your systems. As time goes on, and you want to do things like use NFS, etc., this will become rather important. If you already have other Linux or UNIX systems in your shop, you should investigate to find out if they're doing this already, and if so, use the UID and GID they have for any users you might have in common.
The files that are involved in this are: /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow Make sure you only copy the selected records necessary, and not the whole file. If you have Samba running, the smbpasswd file would also be useful to pick records from to copy. Other applications may require similar selection. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: paultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cloning users from one system to another If I have a RH7.2 user environment setup on system "A", and I create a brand new system "B", can I clone the defined users from system "A" to system "B"? If so, which files would need to be copied? Thanks, Paul
