On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Nelson Serafica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have 5 mail server that will be planning to join as 1. Let's say A,B,C,D > and E. The mail server that will act as 1 is A. > > My first concern is how do I transfer the user account from B,C,D and E > going to A while retaining their password in their previous mail server? > Emails is no concern since I can rsync the home directory. > > I'm thinking of combining shadow file but is it advisable? Any > software/commands that can do this? Will different OS such as Rh9, FC2 and > Centos4 will be an issue even they are all rpm-like OS? >
Roughly: 1. On all servers, prior to "combining" /etc/password, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow (if available), do pwunconv and grpunconv first. man pwunconv for details. 2. Take care not to copy system UIDs and GIDs from the other servers. Take care of dupes as well. 3. Integrate the accounts in server A. 4. Do a pwconv. 5. Let it simmer. Add salt to taste. -- Ian Dexter R. Marquez http://feeds.iandexter.net/Coredump _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
