Re: [PLUG] Moving a lot of user accounts

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> i think the biggest factor to how simple this is going to be has
> to do with what what was running on the old box being taken out
> of commision.  if they're both redhat, i believe* you should be
> able to copy the related lines over.  you'll also probably want
> the related lines of /etc/group as well, and other than that you
> shouldn't get too many headaches.  just remember to preserve file
> attributes when you tar/pax/rsync/whatever everything over.  some basic
> stuff i'd keep an eye out for:
>
> - overlapping/conflicting uids on the new system
> - overlapping/conflicting gids on the new system
> - changed gids for distribution-specified groups or users
> - the existance of all the shells that the users use
> - if the old box isn't redhat, differences in passwd/shadow formats

I regularly copy user and group and shadow lines from a solaris 7 box to a
debian 3.0 box and it works flawlessly. If you need a copy of the perl
scripts, I can oblige.

Fred Ollinger
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