How do I move an account... A few more details... and more

[Don]

Peter,
Thanks for the verbose answer, I needed that.

This info is great... Thanks again.

I got the message about copying the lines.

After I accomplish this, I will install FC3 into my RH7.2  I would like to 
use this system as a backup system if the first ever goes down.  Can you 
point me in a direction for this.  It sounds like I might be able to use 
rsync for this.  Do you know of any how to docs to run to machines in 
parallel?
Don


At 09:35 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 28 December 2004 23:32, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:21 am, Don wrote:
> > > How do I move there directories and preserve their owner ship?  I have
> > > about 30 accounts on another machine.
> >
> > If you use tar to backup the directories, permissions and ownerships are
> > going to be retained (assuming you have same user accounts on the other
> > system).
> >
> > man tar
> >
> > HTH,
> > Jorge
>
>Hehe - the little more verbose answer:
>
>if you copy the entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and then make sure
>that the group files match up (execute "id <username>" on the old system,
>make an entry for all new groups and add the users to existing groups - if it
>was a simple setup, you should only have to copy the lines for the individual
>user's groups)
>
>If you do that, then all the user names and numerical id's will be the same -
>that way you don't really have to worry about too much. You can use "tar" on
>one system, ftp the tar archive over and then untar on the other side. Or (as
>I prefer it if I have both boxes available at the same time) run rsync
>between the systems - works very efficient and without issues. Use tar if you
>want easy and do it one time, figure out rsync if you need to do this more
>often or just want to learn a new cool command :-)
>
>Of course there are tons of other ways to copy between boxes but that should
>get the job done for you...
>
>Peter.
>
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