Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating Users - BEST way
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
[gentoo-user] Migrating Users - BEST way
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). Then there's also the smbpasswd file. What would be the best way to do this? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:49:44 up 4 days, 17:57, 9 users, load average: 0.49, 0.47, 0.47 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
