Moving users from FC1 to FC2

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Jul 29 01:36:06 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 20:20, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 29.07.2004 schrieb Charles Layno um 3:03:
> 
> > I am moving a server from an old PII that is running FC1 to a new Dell
> > Server that I have installed FC2 on. I am trying to move the users and
> > their passwords over to the new Dell FC2 server so I don't have to pee
> > them off by having all off them enter new passwords, but I am failing.
> 
> > Charles Layno
> 
> You only have to copy the user accounts from on the FC1 host to the new
> FC2 host. The account data to be copied is located in
> 
> - /etc/passwd
> - /etc/shadow
> - /etc/group
> - /etc/gshadow
> 
> Alexander
> 
And of course their home directory contents. (all of /home).





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