I clobbered one of our test systems trying to move it a few days ago, and ended up having to reinstall it. So far, so good, but now if possible I need to restore the userids and passwords as several of them belong to installed products (like DB2 & Oracle) as opposed to real people. I have an old backup that I can restore to some fcp dasd (the old and newly installed system were/are on fcp not ckd dasd). I can also mount the restored copy of the old system onto the new system, so I can access the data.
Now for the crucial part of this; can I copy the appropriate files from the restored data to the new system, and will they work? If yes, what files do I need to copy? The only files that I think I know about are the ones named passwd and shadow in the /etc directory. Is there anything else that I also need to copy. Someone just reminded me that I should probably create the userids on the new system first, so their home directories get created, and then copy the passwd and shadow files afterwards. I'm thinking that I should also copy the home directories for DB2, Lotus Notes, Oracle and any other program products as well. Can anyone tell me if there's anything else that needs to be copied or anything else that I need to do? Thank you Sue Sivets -- Suzanne Sivets Systems Programmer Innovation Data Processing 275 Paterson Ave Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658 973-890-7300 Fax 973-890-7147 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
