Simon,
Your persistance is to be applauded. Though you
lose points for using a spreadsheet rather than a
unix editor :-)
It really should be a lot easier to do this task under
unix.
I have a script 'userexp' which takes a passwd/group/shadow
file and spits out a whole bunch of 'useradd' commands
to be run on another server, but it's not really ready
for mass consumption yet.
Someone kick me in the pants and I might release it.
Regards,
-Matt
Simon Bryan wrote:
> Thanks all,
> What I ended up doing was to use Webmins add user facility.
> Details:
> load both the passwd file and the shadow file into Excel, delete unwanted
> users and then inserted the encrypted passwords into the second column in
> the passwd file using cut and paste, added five dummy columns at the end of
> each row containg zz in each cell, inserted a column at the beginnin with
> 'create' in each cell. Added the group Staff to my server, deleted all the
> exisiting UID's and replaced them with 'zz', replaced all the exisiting
> GID's with the GID for the group staff. Saved that as csv file, loaded it
> into NoteTab Light, replaced all the , with : then replaced all the zz with
> nothing.
>
> Used Webmin and 'add users from a batch file' and bingo all users created,
> including Home directoires etc as well as updating the Samba users at the
> same time.
>
> Total time about 10 minutes, once I had worked out the process.
>
> I thought about just copying the files and directories but that was a
> problem (for me anyway) as they are on different servers and I was not sure
> how to copy the directories and preserve permissions. Also this gave me a
> chance to put all the users into a Staff group and eleiminate all the
> individual groups that I had created when using 'useradd'.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>>Jeff
>>Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 8:45 AM
>>To: Simon Bryan; Slug
>>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Transfer Users
>>
>>
>>Simon,
>> I have about 60 users on my system and have upgraded the main
>>hard drive twice. Both times I simply copied the
>>/etc/passwd file and the /etc/group files over first. When I copy
>>the /home
>>directory accross and any other directory the users use I make
>>sure the copy
>>is with permissions and owner preserved.
>>This works for me.
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Simon Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "Slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:32 AM
>>Subject: [SLUG] Transfer Users
>>
>>
>>
>>>Sent this last night, hasn't appeared. I think I may have had rtf format
>>>set.
>>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>The last remaining task in changin from Mandrake 6 to a new server with
>>>RH7.2 is to transfer the users.
>>>I have a system for transferring the users using a file and
>>
>>Webmin's bulk
>>
>>>adduser routine, which I have used in the past. However this time I need
>>
>>to
>>
>>>transfer the passwords as well, once I have created the users
>>
>>can I simply
>>
>>>copy over the shadow password file, or should I do it first, or
>>
>>won't that
>>
>>>work at all.
>>>
>>>Any advice appreciated,
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>_________________________________________
>>>Simon Bryan
>>>IT Manager
>>>OLMC Parramata
>>>ICQ#: 137562751
>>>_________________________________________
>>>
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