How do I move an account

[Peter Arremann]

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 22:33, David Limon Romero wrote:
> El Mar 28 Dic 2004 7:33 PM, Don escribió:
> > Hi,
> > How do I move a persons account from RH 7.2 to FC3.  I need to preserve
> > the password and email account.
>
> Don
>
> Just copy /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd from the RH7.2 to the new FC3.
>
> That's what I do and works fine.
>
> David

David,

I hope you meant copy the lines for the user account 
from /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd and the entries from /etc/group rather than the 
whole file... The system accounts and so on are different depending on the 
installed software and copying the whole file can cause havoc...

Peter.